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Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry.
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32 authors.
Mateja HajdinjakDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. mateja_hajdinjak@eva.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4064-0331
Fabrizio MafessoniDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4319-2076
Laurits SkovDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Benjamin VernotDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Alexander HübnerDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3572-9996
Qiaomei FuKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IVPP, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7141-0002
Elena EsselDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Sarah NagelDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Birgit NickelDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Julia RichterDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Oana Teodora MoldovanEmil Racovita Institute of Speleology, Cluj Department, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1262-0675
Silviu ConstantinDepartment of Geospeleology and Paleontology, Emil Racovita Institute of Speleology, Bucharest, Romania.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3737-2652
Elena EndarovaNational History Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Nikolay ZaharievArchaeology Department, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Rosen SpasovArchaeology Department, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Frido WelkerDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Geoff M SmithDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7155-5140
Virginie Sinet-MathiotDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Lindsey PaskulinDepartment of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
Helen FewlassDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9093-3490
Sahra TalamoDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2406-3132
Zeljko RezekDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9987-7985
Svoboda SirakovaNational Institute of Archaeology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Nikolay SirakovNational Institute of Archaeology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Shannon P McPherronDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Tsenka TsanovaDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Jean-Jacques HublinDepartment of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6283-8114
Benjamin M PeterDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2526-8081
Matthias MeyerDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Pontus SkoglundFrancis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Janet KelsoDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3618-322X
Svante PääboDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. paabo@eva.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4670-6311
Funding
European Research Council 694707European Research Council 852558Medical Research Council FC001595Wellcome Trust FC001595
Abstract
Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago
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