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Modern humans are the result of a genetic mixing event between two ancient populations that diverged around 1.5 million years ago. About 300,000 years ago, these groups came back together, with one group contributing 80% of the genetic makeup of modern humans and the other contributing 20%

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across

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