26 August 2011

Neanderthal and Denisovan Ancestors

Good article in today's L. A. Times about the extinct human subspecies (Neanderthal and Denisovan) with which modern humans, after coming "out of Africa", are now believed to have interbred. Among the upshots was improved immunity. Here.

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