Debunking the Neandertal myth

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• Professor William Amos, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
• Wednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-17:00
• Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Fiona Roby.

The publication of the Neandertal and other archaic human genomes has led to the widespread acceptance that inter-breeding occurred and that modern non-African humans carry a few percent of Neandertal DNA . However, the analysis on which this conclusion is based makes a number of assumptions, notably that mutation rate is, and has been, constant. Relaxing this assumption reveals that a better fitting explanation involves mutation rate slowing as humans left Africa.

This talk is part of the Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine series.

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