This Week in Evolution

TWiEVO 8: Everyone's a little bit Neanderthal


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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Nels visits Vincent in the MicrobeTV studio in New York and talks about how key genes of the Homo sapiens innate immune response were acquired from Neanderthals.

 

Links for this episode
  • Introgressed Neanderthal haplotype at OAS locus (biorXiv)
  • Genetic time travel (Genetics)
  • Genetic history of Ice Age Europe (Nature)
  • Letters read on TWiEVO 8
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