I heard from a long-time correspondent this morning concerning introgression of microcephalin from archaic humans. I'm not sharing the whole message, but I thought it would be worth paraphrasing a key ...

The team was able to further calculate that early modern human introgression into the Altai Neanderthal lineage occurred 100,000-230,000 years ago, based on the amount of shared haplotypes (50 ...

Gene flow—the transfer of genetic material between populations or species—plays a critical role in shaping biodiversity by influencing speciation, adaptation, and genetic divergence. This project will ...

What are ways species exchange genes with each other? Hybridization and gene flow are shortcuts to biodiversity that don’t always involve differentiation. By continuing to study hybridizing species ...

Researchers analyzed the genomes of 20 butterfly species and found evidence that many butterflies -- including distantly related species -- have a surprisingly high amount of gene flow between them.

The Altai Neanderthal genome shares 5.4% more derived alleles with present-day Africans than does the Denisovan genome. This excess is particularly pronounced for derived alleles found at >0.9 ...