Tracing our long-lost lineages using proteomics and ancient DNA

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Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why. Today, technological breakthroughs including proteomics and ancient DNA recovered from caves are allowing us to finally able to tell some of the stories of ancient humans who have now disappeared, like the mysterious Denisovans, the diminutive Homo luzonensis and the “hobbits”, or Homo floresiensis; as well as why our once-insignificant branch of the wider human family tree survived and thrived.

Over tens of thousands of years, waves of Homo sapiens set out across Europe and Asia, only for their societies and cultures to mysteriously vanish. At last, ancient DNA is revealing why
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