Did anatomically modern humans admix with other hominins during their range expansion from Africa? Until recently, the answer to this question remained elusive. Studies of archaic mitochondrial DNA failed to provide evidence in either direction. Fortunately, recent discoveries of well-perserved nuclear DNA of neanderthals, as well as newly described denisovans, have shown that recent Eurasians carry traces of archaic DNA in their genome. This thesis summarises known paleogenetic data addressing this problem and gives examples of genes affected by admixture. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org
