The presence of Neanderthals and Denisovans in the genomes of ancient South Americans is surprising. It's difficult to understand ancient South Americans and their ancestries.
The migration patterns of the early South Americans were revealed by the research. Denisovan or Neanderthal ancestries have never been reported in South America. The research is published in a journal.
The presence of these ancestries in ancient Native American genomes can be explained by episodes of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals and Denisovans, which should have occurred thousands of years ago.
Evidence of migration from the north to the south was found in the research, but it was also found in the opposite direction along the Atlantic coast.
In the recent work, the team compared genomes from ancient human remains found in Brazil, Panama, and Uruguay with ancient remains from across the United States. Two ancient whole genomes from teeth that were included in the study are new.
In addition to the ancient human genomes featured in the analysis, the team looked at current-day worldwide genomes and Neanderthal remains from Russia.
Some of the human remains are just 1,000 years old, but the remains of Neanderthals are over 100,000 years old.
Neanderthal and Denisovan genes were found in the ancient South American genomes, as well as in the remains of a person from Panama. In southeastern Brazil and in the Sirui people of Amazonia, the Australasian signal was previously found.
According to a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology who was not affiliated with the recent study, the data is consistent.
It will be interesting in the future if we could figure out when this Australasian ancestry component appears in the Americas and how much it brings with it.
There were more Denisovan ancestral signals in the genomes of the ancient people in Panama and Brazil than there were Neanderthal ancestral signals. Humans around the world have more Neanderthals than Denisovan.
The Denisovan ancestry was mixed into the South American humans as long as 40,000 years ago, according to study co-author John Lindo.
There was no evidence of the Australasian signal in the ancient remains of North America. The team wants to look at more ancient Native American and Polynesian genomes in the future.
Iosif Lazaridis, a geneticist at Harvard University who was not affiliated with the work, said in an email that the Australasian ancestry in the Americas is puzzling.
There is no evidence that Austronesians made it to the Americas.
The story of human existence has become colored by the genetics of long- lost hominin species. More ancient genomes will give scientists a better idea of how dispersed humankind is across the globe, and how much of what makes us human isn't from Homo sapiens at all.
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