I'm not kidding, it will only show your white (european) ancestry. No mitochondrial eve, no identifying which migration wave out of africa, and if you do have native american ancestry, it won't identify which migration wave into the Americas. Also it doesn't identify any hominid markers in your dna. I've met you, I wouldn't be surprised if your ancient ancestor fucked a neanderthal.
The journey of our ancient ancestors is a fascinating and amazing story.
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A international team of researchers has completed one of the most detailed analyses of a Neanderthal genome to date. Among the many new findings, the researchers learned that Neanderthals first mated with modern humans a surprisingly long time ago, and that humans living today have more Neanderthal DNA than we assumed.
Before this new study, only four Neanderthal specimens have had their genomes sequenced. Of these, only one—
an Altai Neanderthal found in Siberia—was of sufficient quality, where scientists were able to accurately flag variations in the genome. The new analysis, enabled by a remarkably well-preserved genome taken from a 52,000 year old bone fragment, is now the second Neanderthal genome to be fully sequenced in high fidelity. The resulting
study, now published in
Science, confirms a bunch of things we already knew about Neanderthals, while also revealing some things we didn’t know.
The international research team that conducted this study—a group led by Kay Prüfer and Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany—sequenced the genome of a female Neanderthal, dubbed Vindija 33.19, whose remains were uncovered at Vindija Cave in northern Croatia. By studying Neanderthal genomes in detail, and by comparing their DNA to those of modern humans, scientists can learn more about our evolutionary history and biology. And indeed, the researchers made some interesting discoveries.
Based on previous archaeological and genetic evidence, archaeologists and anthropologists suspected that Neanderthals were thinly dispersed across Europe and Asia. The lack of genetic diversity (low heterozygosity) in the Vindija 33.19 specimen affirms these earlier findings, showing that Neanderthals “lived in small and isolated populations” and “with an effective population size of around 3,000 individuals,” the researchers write in their study.
The earlier genomic analysis of the female Altai Neanderthal showed that her parents were half-siblings, which got scientists thinking that Neanderthals made it a habit of breeding with immediate family members. But the Vindija 33.19 genome is different; her parents were not as closely related, so we can no longer say that extreme inbreeding is a common fixture of the Neanderthals. That said, the Croatian Neanderthal shared a maternal ancestor with three other individuals found in the Vindija Cave (whose genomes aren’t nearly as complete).
The previous Altai Neanderthal study also suggested that Neanderthals starting breeding with archaic modern humans around 100,000 years ago, but the new analysis pushes that back even further to between 130,000 to 145,000 years ago. The location of these sub-species encounters probably happened in the Middle East or the Arabian Peninsula, but before modern humans spread en masse into Europe and Asia.
A comparative analysis of the Vindija 33.19 DNA to living humans resulted in an uptick in the amount of genes retained by Homo sapiens. When our ancestors mated with Neanderthals, we absorbed and retained some of their genes—some good, and some bad (more on this in just a second). Some of these genes have been lost forever (due to natural selection weeding out unfavorable inherited traits), but some have stuck around. Prüfer and Pääbo say that, based on the new high-quality genome, modern populations carry between 1.8 to 2.6 percent Neanderthal DNA—that’s higher than the previous estimates of about 1.5 to 2.1 percent. More specifically, East Asians have about 2.3 to 2.6 percent Neanderthal DNA, while people from western Europe and Asia have retained about 1.8 to 2.4 percent DNA. African populations have virtually none because their ancestors did not mate with Neanderthals.
https://gizmodo.com/humans-have-even-more-neanderthal-dna-than-we-realized-1819182225