Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

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Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. / Hajdinjak, Mateja; Mafessoni, Fabrizio; Skov, Laurits; Vernot, Benjamin; Hübner, Alexander; Fu, Qiaomei; Essel, Elena; Nagel, Sarah; Nickel, Birgit; Richter, Julia; Moldovan, Oana Teodora; Constantin, Silviu; Endarova, Elena; Zahariev, Nikolay; Spasov, Rosen; Welker, Frido; Smith, Geoff M; Sinet-Mathiot, Virginie; Paskulin, Lindsey; Fewlass, Helen; Talamo, Sahra; Rezek, Zeljko; Sirakova, Svoboda; Sirakov, Nikolay; McPherron, Shannon P; Tsanova, Tsenka; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Peter, Benjamin M; Meyer, Matthias; Skoglund, Pontus; Kelso, Janet; Pääbo, Svante.

In: Nature, Vol. 592, No. 7853, 2021, p. 253-257.

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Hajdinjak, M, Mafessoni, F, Skov, L, Vernot, B, Hübner, A, Fu, Q, Essel, E, Nagel, S, Nickel, B, Richter, J, Moldovan, OT, Constantin, S, Endarova, E, Zahariev, N, Spasov, R, Welker, F, Smith, GM, Sinet-Mathiot, V, Paskulin, L, Fewlass, H, Talamo, S, Rezek, Z, Sirakova, S, Sirakov, N, McPherron, SP, Tsanova, T, Hublin, J-J, Peter, BM, Meyer, M, Skoglund, P, Kelso, J & Pääbo, S 2021, 'Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry', Nature, vol. 592, no. 7853, pp. 253-257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3

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Hajdinjak, M., Mafessoni, F., Skov, L., Vernot, B., Hübner, A., Fu, Q., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Nickel, B., Richter, J., Moldovan, O. T., Constantin, S., Endarova, E., Zahariev, N., Spasov, R., Welker, F., Smith, G. M., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Paskulin, L., ... Pääbo, S. (2021). Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. Nature, 592(7853), 253-257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3

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Hajdinjak M, Mafessoni F, Skov L, Vernot B, Hübner A, Fu Q et al. Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. Nature. 2021;592(7853):253-257. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3

Author

Hajdinjak, Mateja ; Mafessoni, Fabrizio ; Skov, Laurits ; Vernot, Benjamin ; Hübner, Alexander ; Fu, Qiaomei ; Essel, Elena ; Nagel, Sarah ; Nickel, Birgit ; Richter, Julia ; Moldovan, Oana Teodora ; Constantin, Silviu ; Endarova, Elena ; Zahariev, Nikolay ; Spasov, Rosen ; Welker, Frido ; Smith, Geoff M ; Sinet-Mathiot, Virginie ; Paskulin, Lindsey ; Fewlass, Helen ; Talamo, Sahra ; Rezek, Zeljko ; Sirakova, Svoboda ; Sirakov, Nikolay ; McPherron, Shannon P ; Tsanova, Tsenka ; Hublin, Jean-Jacques ; Peter, Benjamin M ; Meyer, Matthias ; Skoglund, Pontus ; Kelso, Janet ; Pääbo, Svante. / Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. In: Nature. 2021 ; Vol. 592, No. 7853. pp. 253-257.

Bibtex

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title = "Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry",
abstract = "Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago1-5, but the extent of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago6, and their relationship to the broader expansion of modern humans outside Africa are poorly understood. Here we present genome-wide data from three individuals dated to between 45,930 and 42,580 years ago from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria1,2. They are the earliest Late Pleistocene modern humans known to have been recovered in Europe so far, and were found in association with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic artefact assemblage. Unlike two previously studied individuals of similar ages from Romania7 and Siberia8 who did not contribute detectably to later populations, these individuals are more closely related to present-day and ancient populations in East Asia and the Americas than to later west Eurasian populations. This indicates that they belonged to a modern human migration into Europe that was not previously known from the genetic record, and provides evidence that there was at least some continuity between the earliest modern humans in Europe and later people in Eurasia. Moreover, we find that all three individuals had Neanderthal ancestors a few generations back in their family history, confirming that the first European modern humans mixed with Neanderthals and suggesting that such mixing could have been common.",
author = "Mateja Hajdinjak and Fabrizio Mafessoni and Laurits Skov and Benjamin Vernot and Alexander H{\"u}bner and Qiaomei Fu and Elena Essel and Sarah Nagel and Birgit Nickel and Julia Richter and Moldovan, {Oana Teodora} and Silviu Constantin and Elena Endarova and Nikolay Zahariev and Rosen Spasov and Frido Welker and Smith, {Geoff M} and Virginie Sinet-Mathiot and Lindsey Paskulin and Helen Fewlass and Sahra Talamo and Zeljko Rezek and Svoboda Sirakova and Nikolay Sirakov and McPherron, {Shannon P} and Tsenka Tsanova and Jean-Jacques Hublin and Peter, {Benjamin M} and Matthias Meyer and Pontus Skoglund and Janet Kelso and Svante P{\"a}{\"a}bo",
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AU - Fu, Qiaomei

AU - Essel, Elena

AU - Nagel, Sarah

AU - Nickel, Birgit

AU - Richter, Julia

AU - Moldovan, Oana Teodora

AU - Constantin, Silviu

AU - Endarova, Elena

AU - Zahariev, Nikolay

AU - Spasov, Rosen

AU - Welker, Frido

AU - Smith, Geoff M

AU - Sinet-Mathiot, Virginie

AU - Paskulin, Lindsey

AU - Fewlass, Helen

AU - Talamo, Sahra

AU - Rezek, Zeljko

AU - Sirakova, Svoboda

AU - Sirakov, Nikolay

AU - McPherron, Shannon P

AU - Tsanova, Tsenka

AU - Hublin, Jean-Jacques

AU - Peter, Benjamin M

AU - Meyer, Matthias

AU - Skoglund, Pontus

AU - Kelso, Janet

AU - Pääbo, Svante

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N2 - Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago1-5, but the extent of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago6, and their relationship to the broader expansion of modern humans outside Africa are poorly understood. Here we present genome-wide data from three individuals dated to between 45,930 and 42,580 years ago from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria1,2. They are the earliest Late Pleistocene modern humans known to have been recovered in Europe so far, and were found in association with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic artefact assemblage. Unlike two previously studied individuals of similar ages from Romania7 and Siberia8 who did not contribute detectably to later populations, these individuals are more closely related to present-day and ancient populations in East Asia and the Americas than to later west Eurasian populations. This indicates that they belonged to a modern human migration into Europe that was not previously known from the genetic record, and provides evidence that there was at least some continuity between the earliest modern humans in Europe and later people in Eurasia. Moreover, we find that all three individuals had Neanderthal ancestors a few generations back in their family history, confirming that the first European modern humans mixed with Neanderthals and suggesting that such mixing could have been common.

AB - Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago1-5, but the extent of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago6, and their relationship to the broader expansion of modern humans outside Africa are poorly understood. Here we present genome-wide data from three individuals dated to between 45,930 and 42,580 years ago from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria1,2. They are the earliest Late Pleistocene modern humans known to have been recovered in Europe so far, and were found in association with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic artefact assemblage. Unlike two previously studied individuals of similar ages from Romania7 and Siberia8 who did not contribute detectably to later populations, these individuals are more closely related to present-day and ancient populations in East Asia and the Americas than to later west Eurasian populations. This indicates that they belonged to a modern human migration into Europe that was not previously known from the genetic record, and provides evidence that there was at least some continuity between the earliest modern humans in Europe and later people in Eurasia. Moreover, we find that all three individuals had Neanderthal ancestors a few generations back in their family history, confirming that the first European modern humans mixed with Neanderthals and suggesting that such mixing could have been common.

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