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Unearthing Secrets of Our Shared Human DNA

Joshua Akey The Conversation
Our Homo sapiens ancestors shared the world with Neanderthals, Denisovans and other types of humans whose DNA lives on in our genes. Unearthing those extinct genomes has profound practical and philosophical implications.

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The Humans That Lived Before Us

It's not easy to say what makes a human -- to define the boundaries of the family. But we now know that it's a big and complex picture, with lots of amazing relatives in it. 

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