Past human expansions shaped the spatial pattern of Neanderthal ancestry
C. S. Quilodran, J. Rio, A. Tsoupas, M. Currat
This study shows that Neanderthal ancestry gradients in Eurasian populations result from past human expansions, with the Out-of-Africa expansion creating spatial patterns and Neolithic farmer expansions reducing introgression levels in Europe.
bioRxiv · Dec 22, 2022Evolutionary Biology