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Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by snackematician on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:39AM (#20565910)
I would be very cautious interpreting these results. There are no DNA samples from the putative EH1 and EH2 hominin populations -- these populations are statistical constructs used to explain the data, but not (yet) directly observed.

I do think it's likely that H. sapiens intermixed with other hominins besides Neanderthal and Denisovan, but the models used to infer these results make a lot of assumptions and are at best a drastic simplification of reality.

Re:Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Resea... by keiru on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:01PM (#20570796)
Goes to show that every field has its own inferred "dark matter" of sorts.