Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Cell. 2014 Mar 27;157(1):216-26. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.12.036.
Research into when and where modern humans originated and how they differ from, and interacted with, other now-extinct forms of human has so far been the realm of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists. However, over the past decade, molecular geneticists have begun to study genomes of extinct humans. Here, I discuss where we stand today with respect to understanding how modern humans came to differ from Neandertals and other human forms that existed until about 30,000 years ago.
关于现代人类起源的时间和地点，以及他们与其他已灭绝的人类形式的差异和相互作用，迄今为止一直是考古学家和古人类学家的研究领域。然而，在过去的十年中，分子遗传学家已经开始研究已灭绝人类的基因组。在这里，我讨论了我们今天对现代人类如何与尼安德特人和其他存在于约 3 万年前的人类形式相区别的理解程度。
