A parsimonious neutral model suggests Neanderthal replacement was determined by migration and random species drift

The replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans is thought to have been due to environmental factors, a selective advantage of modern humans, or both. Here, Kolodny and Feldman develop a neutral model of species drift showing that rapid Neanderthal replacement can be explained parsimoniously by sim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oren Kolodny, Marcus W. Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01043-z