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Los orígenes del ancestro humano moderno
Anders Bergström1, Chris Stringer2, Mateja Hajdinjak1
1Ancient Genomics Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Nature
|February 11, 2021
Resumen
Los orígenes humanos modernos implican fases complejas, incluida la expansión fuera de África y las interacciones con grupos arcaicos como los neandertales y los denisovanos. Los antepasados se remontan a más de un millón de años, sin un solo punto de origen identificado.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Palaeoantropología
- La genómica
- La evolución del hombre
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- Los recientes descubrimientos paleoantropológicos y genómicos están remodelando nuestra comprensión de los orígenes humanos modernos.
- Esta revisión sintetiza el conocimiento actual sobre el rastreo de la ascendencia humana moderna en el pasado profundo.
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