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A map showing where the ancestors of modern humans seem to convey met as well as mixed
with archaic hominins [Credit: University of Adelaide]

Genetic analysis has revealed that the ancestors of modern humans interbred amongst at to the lowest degree 5 dissimilar archaic human groups equally they moved out of Africa as well as across Eurasia.

While 2 of the archaic groups are currently known - the Neanderthals as well as their sis grouping the Denisovans from Asia ¬- the others rest unnamed as well as convey alone been detected equally traces of deoxyribonucleic acid surviving inwards dissimilar modern populations. Island Southeast Asia appears to convey been a item hotbed of diversity.

Published inwards the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Adelaide's Australian Centre for Ancient deoxyribonucleic acid (ACAD) convey mapped the place of past times "mixing events" (analysed from existing scientific literature) past times contrasting the levels of archaic ancestry inwards the genomes of present-day populations or then the world.

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