title: Small Amounts of Archaic Admixture Provide Big Insights into Human History.
abstract: Modern humans overlapped in time and space with other hominins, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, and limited amounts of hybridization occurred. Here, we review recent work that has identified archaic hominin sequence that survives in modern human genomes and what these genomic excavations reveal about human evolutionary history.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue Northeast, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065, USA.
authors.forename: Selina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vattathil
authors.affiliation: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, 3720 15th Avenue Northeast, Box 355065, Seattle, WA 98195-5065, USA. Electronic address: akeyj@uw.edu.
authors.forename: Joshua M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Akey
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005826:Genetics, Medical; D015894:Genome, Human; D015186:Hominidae / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D059125:Neanderthals / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D012641:Selection, Genetic