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Analyses of the genomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, suggest that our ancestors were part of a web of now-extinct populations linked by limited, but intermittent or sometimes perhaps even persistent, gene flow.
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Pääbo, S. The diverse origins of the human gene pool. Nat Rev Genet 16, 313–314 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg3954
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