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The dense concentration of broadly contemporaneous Neanderthal sites in the Meuse Basin, Belgium4, provides a rare opportunity to study regional populations at high resolution. Here we generated genetic data from 27 Neanderthals who lived less than approximately 52,500 years ago from ten archaeological sites in Belgium and France, including a high-coverage genome from a 45,000-year-old individual from Goyet, Belgium. We show that most of these individuals are more closely related to one another than to other contemporaneous late Neanderthals in Europe. Further, some of these individuals carry DNA from a Neanderthal lineage predating the split of late Neanderthals. Although these Neanderthals overlapped temporally with early modern humans in northwestern Europe from around 47,000 years ago, we find no evidence of recent gene flow from modern humans. They also do not show the genetic signatures of mating among close relatives found in Altai Neanderthals, suggesting that they lived in larger or better-connected groups. Moreover, genetic load did not accumulate over time, arguing against progressive genetic deterioration as a driver of Neanderthal extinction.", "doi": "10.1038/s41586-026-10625-1", "pmid": "42343123", "labels": {"NGI Stockholm (Genomics Production)": "Service", "NGI Short read": "Service", "National Genomics Infrastructure": "Service"}, "xrefs": [{"db": "pii", "key": "10.1038/s41586-026-10625-1"}, {"db": "pmc", "key": "PMC13345965"}], "notes": [], "created": "2026-07-14T17:55:22.246Z", "modified": "2026-07-14T17:55:23.277Z"}, {"entity": "publication", "iuid": "58bd3a84e43d45578c5613d806758ac1", "links": {"self": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/publication/58bd3a84e43d45578c5613d806758ac1.json"}, "display": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/publication/58bd3a84e43d45578c5613d806758ac1"}}, "title": "Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture.", "authors": [{"family": "S\u00fcmer", "given": "Arev P", "initials": "AP", "orcid": 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"abstract": "Modern humans arrived in Europe more than 45,000 years ago, overlapping at least 5,000 years with Neanderthals1-4. Limited genomic data from these early modern humans have shown that at least two genetically distinct groups inhabited Europe, represented by Zlat\u00fd k\u016f\u0148, Czechia3 and Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria2. Here we deepen our understanding of early modern humans by analysing one high-coverage genome and five low-coverage genomes from approximately 45,000-year-old remains from Ilsenh\u00f6hle in Ranis, Germany4, and a further high-coverage genome from Zlat\u00fd k\u016f\u0148. We show that distant familial relationships link the Ranis and Zlat\u00fd k\u016f\u0148 individuals and that they were part of the same small, isolated population that represents the deepest known split from the Out-of-Africa lineage. Ranis genomes harbour Neanderthal segments that originate from a single admixture event shared with all non-Africans that we date to approximately 45,000-49,000 years ago. This implies that ancestors of all non-Africans sequenced so far resided in a common population at this time, and further suggests that modern human remains older than 50,000 years from outside Africa represent different non-African populations.", "doi": "10.1038/s41586-024-08420-x", "pmid": "39667410", "labels": {"Bioinformatics Support for Computational Resources": "Service", "NGI Short read": "Service", "National Genomics Infrastructure": "Service", "NGI Stockholm (Genomics Production)": "Service"}, "xrefs": [{"db": "pmc", "key": "PMC11839475"}, {"db": "pii", "key": "10.1038/s41586-024-08420-x"}], "notes": [], "created": "2025-02-28T14:15:29.929Z", "modified": "2025-05-27T08:41:54.814Z"}, {"entity": "publication", "iuid": "d0065625d87a4758b4bf7553d1b83ca5", "links": {"self": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/publication/d0065625d87a4758b4bf7553d1b83ca5.json"}, "display": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/publication/d0065625d87a4758b4bf7553d1b83ca5"}}, "title": "Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago.", "authors": [{"family": "Mylopotamitaki", "given": "Dorothea", "initials": "D"}, {"family": "Weiss", "given": "Marcel", "initials": "M", "orcid": "0000-0002-0778-5520", "researcher": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/researcher/1688a83f780c44ba937de8577a9e3956.json"}}, {"family": "Fewlass", "given": "Helen", "initials": "H", "orcid": "0000-0002-9093-3490", "researcher": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/researcher/2a4c2d80db0346738aa160b8ce7785a5.json"}}, {"family": "Zavala", "given": "Elena Irene", "initials": "EI", "orcid": "0000-0001-7687-5370", "researcher": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/researcher/9c07c2fc2f8c440890317f9ab62c72da.json"}}, {"family": "Rougier", "given": "H\u00e9l\u00e8ne", "initials": "H", "orcid": "0000-0003-0358-0285", "researcher": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/researcher/46f83f613a0f4d9fba2f1b9f9d6db45c.json"}}, {"family": "S\u00fcmer", 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"Tim", "initials": "T", "orcid": "0000-0001-9190-8054", "researcher": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/researcher/433420b892e444b59e0701877ca6c4cb.json"}}, {"family": "Hublin", "given": "Jean-Jacques", "initials": "JJ", "orcid": "0000-0001-6283-8114", "researcher": {"href": "https://publications.scilifelab.se/researcher/26462f3e315a4740b9ae5337389ce99e.json"}}], "type": "journal article", "published": "2024-02-00", "journal": {"title": "Nature", "issn": "1476-4687", "volume": "626", "issue": "7998", "pages": "341-346", "issn-l": "0028-0836"}, "abstract": "The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens. Late Neanderthals persisted in western Europe several millennia after the occurrence of H. sapiens in eastern Europe1. Local hybridization between the two groups occurred2, but not on all occasions3. Archaeological evidence also indicates the presence of several technocomplexes during this transition, complicating our understanding and the association of behavioural adaptations with specific hominin groups4. One such technocomplex for which the makers are unknown is the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ), which has been described in northwestern and central Europe5-8. Here we present the morphological and proteomic taxonomic identification, mitochondrial DNA analysis and direct radiocarbon dating of human remains directly associated with an LRJ assemblage at the site Ilsenh\u00f6hle in Ranis (Germany). These human remains are among the earliest directly dated Upper Palaeolithic H. sapiens remains in Eurasia. We show that early H. sapiens associated with the LRJ were present in central and northwestern Europe long before the extinction of late Neanderthals in southwestern Europe. Our results strengthen the notion of a patchwork of distinct human populations and technocomplexes present in Europe during this transitional period.", "doi": "10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7", "pmid": "38297117", "labels": {"Bioinformatics Support for Computational Resources": "Service"}, "xrefs": [{"db": "pmc", "key": "PMC10849966"}, {"db": "pii", "key": "10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7"}], "notes": [], "created": "2024-11-25T10:19:23.306Z", "modified": "2024-11-25T10:19:23.999Z"}]}