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Europe's Earliest Human Traces Unearthed in Ukraine, Distant From Russian Bombardments

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Recent archaeological excavations in western Ukraine have yielded a treasure trove of stone tools dating back an astonishing 1.4 International collaboration among researchers from diverse European nations underscores the global significance of Ukraine's archaeological heritage and the collective pursuit of knowledge in the face of adversity.

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Ancient Interactions: Homo sapiens and Neanderthals' 200,000-Year Relationship Uncovered

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We leveraged modern human–introgressed sequences in the Neanderthal genome to refine estimates of Neanderthal ancestry in contemporary humans by decomposing IBDmix-detected segments into those attributable to human-to-Neanderthal (H→N) versus Neanderthal-to-human (N→H) gene flow in 2000 modern human individuals. Comi, T.