“Human ancestors interbred with two distinct populations of distant relatives” nice new preprint by @alanrogers.bsky.social @colinmbrand.bsky.social @timwebster.bsky.social showing that “archaics” & “moderns” interbred with two distinct “superarchaic” populations 🧪🧬💀

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Why do AI studies in genomics focus on the scale of their analysis rather than the new discoveries made? #bioinformatics

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

First major paper from the lab! The work was led by super talented postdoc Maria Akopyan. She explored how reference bias skews estimates of diversity, demography, divergence & recombination rate with help from @elliecat.bsky.social & awesome ungrad Matthew. Full thread coming soon 🤓