Tracing the Neanderthal-Modern Human hybrid zone using paleogenomic data
Lionel N. Di Santo, Claudio S. Quilodrán, Pierpaolo Cerrito et al.
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The study investigates how spatial patterns of introgressed DNA in ancient genomes can reveal the geographic location of past hybridization events during population expansions. Through computational simulations, the authors identify conditions under which introgression-based statistics remain informative. Applying these insights to an expanded Eurasian paleogenomic dataset of Neanderthal ancestry, they infer a persistent spatial cline consistent with a prolonged admixture pulse extending beyond the Levant across western Eurasia, highlighting how paleogenomic data can recover the spatiotemporal dynamics of interactions between Neanderthals and modern humans.
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