Periodic Reporting for period 2 - ARCHAIC ADAPT (Admixture accelerated adaptation: signals from modern, ancient and archaic DNA.)

Interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans in the past introduced archaic DNA into modern human populations, an event often referred to as archaic introgression. Having access to Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes has enabled the quantification of the amount of archaic DNA...