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Title: | Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments |
Authors: | Vernot, Benjamin John Hopson Zavala, Elena I. Gómez-Olivencia, Asier Jacobs, Zenobia Slon, Viviane Mafessoni, Fabrizio Romagné, Frédéric Pearson, Alice Petr, Martin Sala, Nohemi Pablos Fernández, Adrián Aranburu Artano, Arantza Bermúdez de Castro, José María Carbonell, Eudald Li, Bo Krajcarz, Maciej T. Krivoshapkin, Andrey I. Kolobova, Kseniya A. Kozlikin, Maxim B. Shunkov, Michael V. Derevianko, Anatoly P. Viola, Bence Grote, Steffi Essel, Elena López Herráez, David Nagel, Sarah Nickel, Birgit Richter, Julia Schmidt, Anna Peter, Benjamin Kelso, Helena Roberts, Richard G. Arsuaga, Juan Luis Meyer, Matthias |
Issue Date: | May-2021 |
Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Citation: | Science, 2021, 372 (6542), eabf1667 |
Abstract: | Bones and teeth are important sources of Pleistocene hominin DNA, but are rarely recovered at archaeological sites. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been retrieved from cave sediments but provides limited value for studying population relationships. We therefore developed methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments and applied them to cave deposits in western Europe and southern Siberia dated to between 200,000 and 50,000 years ago. We detected a population replacement in northern Spain about 100,000 years ago, which was accompanied by a turnover of mtDNA. We also identified two radiation events in Neanderthal history during the early part of the Late Pleistocene. Our work lays the ground for studying the population history of ancient hominins from trace amounts of nuclear DNA in sediments. |
URI: | http://cir.cenieh.es/handle/20.500.12136/2565 |
ISSN: | 0036-8075 1095-9203 |
DOI: | 10.1126/science.abf1667 |
Editor version: | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1667 |
Type: | Article |
Appears in Collections: | Paleobiología |
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