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Modern Humans Descended from Two Ancestral Populations, New Study Suggests

According to new research from the University of Cambridge, modern humans are a result of two populations (potentially Homo heidelbergensis and Homo erectus) that diverged 1.5 million years ago and came together in an admixture event 300,000 years ago, in a ratio of 80:20%.

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