title: The diverse origins of the human gene pool.
abstract: Analyses of the genomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, suggest that our ancestors were part of a web of now-extinct populations linked by limited, but intermittent or sometimes perhaps even persistent, gene flow.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Svante
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pääbo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D051456:Gene Flow; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D059125:Neanderthals / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA