“Typically, genetic novelty is generated through a very slow process,” Huerta-Sánchez said. “But these interbreeding events were a sudden way to introduce a lot of new variation.”
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Extinct human relatives left a genetic gift that helped people thrive in the Americas
A new study found that a gene passed down from extinct archaic humans provided an adaptive advantage for Indigenous people of the Americas and is still common today in people of Indigenous descent.