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Keira Cheetham, Anthony Cox, Michael Eberle, Sean Humphray, Scott Kahn, Lisa Murray, John Peden, Richard Shaw, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Eimear E. Kenny, Louisiana State University, Mark A. Batzer, Miriam K. Konkel, Jerilyn A. Walker, Massachusetts General Hospital, Daniel G. MacArthur, Monkol Lek, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ralf Sudbrak, Vyacheslav S. Amstislavskiy, Ralf Herwig, McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University, Elaine R. Mardis, Li Ding, Daniel C. Koboldt, David Larson, Kai Ye, McGill University, Simon Gravel, National Eye Institute, NIH, Anand Swaroop, Emily Chew, New York Genome Center, Tuuli Lappalainen, Yaniv Erlich, Melissa Gymrek, Thomas Frederick Willems, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Jared T. Simpson, Pennsylvania State University, Mark D. Shriver, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Jeffrey A. Rosenfeld, Stanford University, Carlos D. Bustamante, Stephen B. Montgomery, Francisco M. De La Vega, Jake K. Byrnes, Andrew W. Carroll, Marianne K. DeGorter, Phil Lacroute, Brian K. Maples, Alicia R. Martin, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Suyash S. Shringarpure, Fouad Zakharia, Tel-Aviv University, Eran Halperin, Yael Baran, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Charles Lee, Eliza Cerveira, Jaeho Hwang, Ankit Malhotra, Dariusz Plewczynski, Kamen Radew, Mallory Romanovitch, Chengsheng Zhang, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Fiona C. L. Hyland, Translational Genomics Research Institute, David W. Craig, Alexis Christoforides, Nils Homer, Tyler Izatt, Ahmet A. Kurdoglu, Shripad A. Sinari, Kevin Squire, US National Institutes of Health, Stephen T. Sherry, Chunlin Xiao, University of California, San Diego, Jonathan Sebat, Danny Antaki, Madhusudan Gujral, Amina Noor, Kenny Ye, University of California, San Francisco, Esteban G. Burchard, Ryan D. Hernandez, Christopher R. Gignoux, University of California, Santa Cruz, David Haussler, Sol J. Katzman, W. James Kent, University of Chicago, Bryan Howie, University College London, Andres Ruiz-Linares, University of Geneva, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Scott E. Devine, University of Michigan, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Hyun Min Kang, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Tom Blackwell, Sean Caron, Wei Chen, Sarah Emery, Lars Fritsche, Christian Fuchsberger, Goo Jun, Bingshan Li, Robert Lyons, Chris Scheller, Carlo Sidore, Shiya Song, Elzbieta Sliwerska, Daniel Taliun, Adrian Tan, Ryan Welch, Mary Kate Wing, Xiaowei Zhan, University of Montréal, Philip Awadalla, Alan Hodgkinson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yun Li, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Xinghua Shi, Andrew Quitadamo, University of Oxford, Gerton Lunter, Gil A. McVean, Jonathan L. Marchini, Simon Myers, Claire Churchhouse, Olivier Delaneau, Anjali Gupta-Hinch, Warren Kretzschmar, Zamin Iqbal, Iain Mathieson, Androniki Menelaou, Andy Rimmer, Dionysia K. Xifara, University of Puerto Rico, Taras K. Oleksyk, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Yunxin Fu, Xiaoming Liu, Momiao Xiong, University of Utah, Lynn Jorde, David Witherspoon, Jinchuan Xing, University of Washington, Evan E. Eichler, Brian L. Browning, Sharon R. Browning, Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Peter H. Sudmant, Weill Cornell Medical College, Ekta Khurana, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Richard M. Durbin, Matthew E. Hurles, Chris Tyler-Smith, Cornelis A. Albers, Qasim Ayub, Senduran Balasubramaniam, Yuan Chen, Vincenza Colonna, Petr Danecek, Luke Jostins, Thomas M. Keane, Shane McCarthy, Klaudia Walter, Yali Xue, Yale University, Mark B. Gerstein, Alexej Abyzov, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Jieming Chen, Declan Clarke, Yao Fu, Arif O. Harmanci, Mike Jin, Donghoon Lee, Jeremy Liu, Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Jing Zhang, Yan Zhang, Structural variation group, BGI-Shenzhen, Yingrui Li, Ruibang Luo, Hongmei Zhu, Bilkent University, Can Alkan, Elif Dal, Fatma Kahveci, Boston College, Gabor T. Marth, Erik P. Garrison, Deniz Kural, Wan-Ping Lee, Alistair N. Ward, Jiantao Wu, Mengyao Zhang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Steven A. McCarroll, Robert E. Handsaker, David M. Altshuler, Eric Banks, Guillermo del Angel, Giulio Genovese, Chris Hartl, Heng Li, Seva Kashin, James C. Nemesh, Khalid Shakir, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Seungtai C. Yoon, Jayon Lihm, Vladimir Makarov, Cornell University, Jeremiah Degenhardt, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Jan O. Korbel, Markus H. Fritz, Sascha Meiers, Benjamin Raeder, Tobias Rausch, Adrian M. Stütz, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Paul Flicek, Francesco Paolo Casale, Laura Clarke, Richard E. Smith, Oliver Stegle, Xiangqun Zheng-Bradley, Illumina, David R. Bentley, Bret Barnes, R. Keira Cheetham, Michael Eberle, Sean Humphray, Scott Kahn, Lisa Murray, Richard Shaw, Leiden University Medical Center, Eric-Wubbo Lameijer, Louisiana State University, Mark A. Batzer, Miriam K. Konkel, Jerilyn A. Walker, McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University, Li Ding, Ira Hall, Kai Ye, Stanford University, Phil Lacroute, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Charles Lee, Eliza Cerveira, Ankit Malhotra, Jaeho Hwang, Dariusz Plewczynski, Kamen Radew, Mallory Romanovitch, Chengsheng Zhang, Translational Genomics Research Institute, David W. Craig, Nils Homer, US National Institutes of Health, Deanna Church, Chunlin Xiao, University of California, San Diego, Jonathan Sebat, Danny Antaki, Vineet Bafna, Jacob Michaelson, Kenny Ye, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Scott E. Devine, Eugene J. Gardner, University of Michigan, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Ryan E. Mills, Gargi Dayama, Sarah Emery, Goo Jun, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Xinghua Shi, Andrew Quitadamo, University of Oxford, Gerton Lunter, Gil A. McVean, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Ken Chen, Xian Fan, Zechen Chong, Tenghui Chen, University of Utah, David Witherspoon, Jinchuan Xing, University of Washington, Evan E. Eichler, Mark J. Chaisson, Fereydoun Hormozdiari, John Huddleston, Maika Malig, Bradley J. Nelson, Peter H. Sudmant, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nicholas F. Parrish, Weill Cornell Medical College, Ekta Khurana, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Matthew E. Hurles, Ben Blackburne, Sarah J. Lindsay, Zemin Ning, Klaudia Walter, Yujun Zhang, Yale University, Mark B. Gerstein, Alexej Abyzov, Jieming Chen, Declan Clarke, Hugo Lam, Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Cristina Sisu, Jing Zhang, Yan Zhang, Exome group, Baylor College of Medicine, Richard A. Gibbs, Fuli Yu, Matthew Bainbridge, Danny Challis, Uday S. Evani, Christie Kovar, James Lu, Donna Muzny, Uma Nagaswamy, Jeffrey G. Reid, Aniko Sabo, Jin Yu, BGI-Shenzhen, Xiaosen Guo, Wangshen Li, Yingrui Li, Renhua Wu, Boston College, Gabor T. Marth, Erik P. Garrison, Wen Fung Leong, Alistair N. Ward, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Guillermo del Angel, Mark A. DePristo, Stacey B. Gabriel, Namrata Gupta, Chris Hartl, Ryan E. Poplin, Cornell University, Andrew G. Clark, Juan L. Rodriguez-Flores, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Paul Flicek, Laura Clarke, Richard E. Smith, Xiangqun Zheng-Bradley, Massachusetts General Hospital, Daniel G. MacArthur, McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University, Elaine R. Mardis, Robert Fulton, Daniel C. Koboldt, McGill University, Simon Gravel, Stanford University, Carlos D. Bustamante, Translational Genomics Research Institute, David W. Craig, Alexis Christoforides, Nils Homer, Tyler Izatt, US National Institutes of Health, Stephen T. Sherry, Chunlin Xiao, University of Geneva, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, University of Michigan, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Hyun Min Kang, University of Oxford, Gil A. McVean, Yale University, Mark B. Gerstein, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Lukas Habegger, Functional interpretation group, Cornell University, Haiyuan Yu, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Paul Flicek, Laura Clarke, Fiona Cunningham, Ian Dunham, Daniel Zerbino, Xiangqun Zheng-Bradley, Harvard University, Kasper Lage, Jakob Berg Jespersen, Heiko Horn, Stanford University, Stephen B. Montgomery, Marianne K. DeGorter, Weill Cornell Medical College, Ekta Khurana, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Chris Tyler-Smith, Yuan Chen, Vincenza Colonna, Yali Xue, Yale University, Mark B. Gerstein, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Yao Fu, Donghoon Kim, Chromosome Y group, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Adam Auton, Anthony Marcketta, American Museum of Natural History, Rob Desalle, Apurva Narechania, Arizona State University, Melissa A. Wilson Sayres, Boston College, Erik P. Garrison, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Robert E. Handsaker, Seva Kashin, Steven A. McCarroll, Cornell University, Juan L. Rodriguez-Flores, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Paul Flicek, Laura Clarke, Xiangqun Zheng-Bradley, New York Genome Center, Yaniv Erlich, Melissa Gymrek, Thomas Frederick Willems, Stanford University, Carlos D. Bustamante, Fernando L. Mendez, G. David Poznik, Peter A. Underhill, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Charles Lee, Eliza Cerveira, Ankit Malhotra, Mallory Romanovitch, Chengsheng Zhang, University of Michigan, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, University of Queensland, Lachlan Coin, Haojing Shao, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, David Mittelman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Chris Tyler-Smith, Qasim Ayub, Ruby Banerjee, Maria Cerezo, Yuan Chen, Thomas W. Fitzgerald, Sandra Louzada, Andrea Massaia, Shane McCarthy, Graham R. Ritchie, Yali Xue, Fengtang Yang, Data coordination center group, Baylor College of Medicine, Richard A. Gibbs, Christie Kovar, Divya Kalra, Walker Hale, Donna Muzny, Jeffrey G. Reid, BGI-Shenzhen, Jun Wang, Xu Dan, Xiaosen Guo, Guoqing Li, Yingrui Li, Chen Ye, Xiaole Zheng, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, David M. Altshuler, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Paul Flicek, Laura Clarke, Xiangqun Zheng-Bradley, Illumina, David R. Bentley, Anthony Cox, Sean Humphray, Scott Kahn, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ralf Sudbrak, Marcus W. Albrecht, Matthias Lienhard, McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University, David Larson, Translational Genomics Research Institute, David W. Craig, Tyler Izatt, Ahmet A. Kurdoglu, US National Institutes of Health, Stephen T. Sherry, Chunlin Xiao, University of California, Santa Cruz, David Haussler, University of Michigan, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, University of Oxford, Gil A. McVean, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Richard M. Durbin, Senduran Balasubramaniam, Thomas M. Keane, Shane McCarthy, James Stalker, Samples and ELSI group, Aravinda Chakravarti, Bartha M. Knoppers, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Kathleen C. Barnes, Christine Beiswanger, Esteban G. Burchard, Carlos D. Bustamante, Hongyu Cai, Hongzhi Cao, Richard M. Durbin, Norman P. Gerry, Neda Gharani, Richard A. Gibbs, Christopher R. Gignoux, Simon Gravel, Brenna Henn, Danielle Jones, Lynn Jorde, Jane S. Kaye, Alon Keinan, Alastair Kent, Angeliki Kerasidou, Yingrui Li, Rasika Mathias, Gil A. McVean, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Pilar N. Ossorio, Michael Parker, Alissa M. Resch, Charles N. Rotimi, Charmaine D. Royal, Karla Sandoval, Yeyang Su, Ralf Sudbrak, Zhongming Tian, Sarah Tishkoff, Lorraine H. Toji, Chris Tyler-Smith, Marc Via, Yuhong Wang, Huanming Yang, Ling Yang, Jiayong Zhu, Sample collection, British from England and Scotland (GBR), Walter Bodmer, Colombians in Medellín, Colombia (CLM), Gabriel Bedoya, Andres Ruiz-Linares, Han Chinese South (CHS), Zhiming Cai, Yang Gao, Jiayou Chu, Finnish in Finland (FIN), Leena Peltonen, Iberian Populations in Spain (IBS), Andres Garcia-Montero, Alberto Orfao, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico (PUR), Julie Dutil, Juan C. Martinez-Cruzado, Taras K. Oleksyk, African Caribbean in Barbados (ACB), Kathleen C. Barnes, Rasika A. Mathias, Anselm Hennis, Harold Watson, Colin McKenzie, Bengali in Bangladesh (BEB), Firdausi Qadri, Regina LaRocque, Pardis C. Sabeti, Chinese Dai in Xishuangbanna, China (CDX), Jiayong Zhu, Xiaoyan Deng, Esan in Nigeria (ESN), Pardis C. Sabeti, Danny Asogun, Onikepe Folarin, Christian Happi, Omonwunmi Omoniwa, Matt Stremlau, Ridhi Tariyal, Gambian in Western Division – Mandinka (GWD), Muminatou Jallow, Fatoumatta Sisay Joof, Tumani Corrah, Kirk Rockett, Dominic Kwiatkowski, Indian Telugu in the UK (ITU) and Sri Lankan Tamil in the UK (STU), Jaspal Kooner, Kinh in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (KHV), Trâ`n Tịnh Hiê`n, Sarah J. Dunstan, Nguyen Thuy Hang, Mende in Sierra Leone (MSL), Richard Fonnie, Robert Garry, Lansana Kanneh, Lina Moses, Pardis C. Sabeti, John Schieffelin, Donald S. Grant, Peruvian in Lima, Peru (PEL), Carla Gallo, Giovanni Poletti, Punjabi in Lahore, Pakistan (PJL), Danish Saleheen, Asif Rasheed, Scientific management, Lisa D. Brooks, Adam L. Felsenfeld, Jean E. McEwen, Yekaterina Vaydylevich, Eric D. Green, Audrey Duncanson, Michael Dunn, Jeffery A. Schloss, Jun Wang, Huanming Yang, Writing group, Adam Auton, Lisa D. Brooks, Richard M. Durbin, Erik P. Garrison, Hyun Min Kang, Jan O. Korbel, Jonathan L. Marchini, Shane McCarthy, Gil A. McVean, Gonçalo R. Abecasis

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TL;DR: You may be interested in - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15393 Bottlenecks, small population inbreeding, genetic drift, founder effect, etc Basically what happened was, an alt-group of African humans decided earth was not safe anymore and its collapse was imminent -- they need to get to Mars. But since they don't have a way to get a spaceship in Africa, they will need to leave Africa and do whatever is necessary to build one, including throwing the people who helped them under the mammoth if need be. At this point they have a pretty diverse gene pool and represent the humans well. They walk for a bit but came upon some steam vents and decided take a break…
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and steam some food and enjoy the ocean view in the distance. The leader is not happy they stopped for food or rest. Later they are shooketh awake just before fire rains down on them. 3/4th of them make it safely to the ocean, and what luck the water is receding it'll be easier to cross, for the first 2/3rds at least. The tsunami gods demanded a toll and claimed the back 1/3. Not happy with the direction of leadership, half the group decided they could establish a better foundation away from these clowns and forked themselves. Meanwhile, back in Africa and finally having got rid of that crazy mars dude and his cult followers, they decide to invite all the neighbors to an epoch swinging dance party to celebrate -- complete with the best plant-based party favours they could dig up/gather. Thus, ensuring the larger African population and their descendant would end up with an abundant supply of pokemon variants to swap between'em. Though, you may want to take a look at the linked paper above for a more precise explanation. I may have paraphrased a bit.
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The whole concept of different human species may be a taxonomic error of historic proportions despite the morphological differences we see in the fossil record. Information on the genome of archaic humans is a very recent development in a centuries old field so it is still catching up, especially at the level of educational material. Based on my reading of the paper about the sequenced neanderthal bone [1] and a global genetic variation study [2], the difference between neanderthals and modern humans isn't that much bigger than the natural variation within the modern human genome. That difference is much smaller (on the order of 10-40x) than the difference between modern…
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humans and chimpanzees and given the multiple genetic bottleneck events in our evolution, I think it's much more accurate to look at all the different species of archaic humans as breeds of modern humans that happen to show a larger difference with older samples because of the limited founding population and the diversity of our ancestors (of which we have very few biased samples). Where to draw the line in speciation is always controversial but my theory is that once tool use really got going by the second stone industry, early humans started artificially self-selecting for intelligence just like we later did with dogs and eventually the modern human "breed" was born. By the million year ago mark, roughly the time evidence of fire started showing up in the archaeological record, I think the species that is modern humans was already long spreading and out competing other apes. I think shortly after this point is when we started developing clothing and moving into the colder climates, leaving evidence at places like Atapuerca. [1] https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature128... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15393
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Something like 30-50% of all human genetic variants are shared across continents. It's hardly asinine to say that a significant proportion of genetic variation is shared with everyone. Depending where you are talking about, ~20% of variation is unique to a given continent. I don't think PCA plots really tell us much beyond there being distinct genetic clusters? One could do a PCA only on people with european ancestry, or people living in a small town, and there would be plenty of interesting structure to look at. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15393

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