Scientists Found Who Still Carries The Most Ancient DNA - After 40,000 Years Max Fried [SaCZieOMuGZ]

A sliver of finger bone, smaller than a coin, sat in a Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years. Then a lab in Germany read its DNA and found a kind of human nobody knew existed. Turns out every person walking around today is carrying ghosts. Extinct cousins, hiding in your cells, doing quiet work right now. Some people carry way more than others. The ranking goes somewhere nobody expects, and the number one spot still gets me.

CHAPTERS:

0:00 - The Extinct DNA Inside Your Cells

0:32 - Reading The Code Locked In Old Bone

2:01 - Neanderthals Never Fully Died Out

3:49 - Why Some Carry More Than Others

4:27 - The Ancient Genes Still Working In You

5:49 - The Finger Bone That Named A New Species

8:10 - How Denisovan DNA Helps Tibetans Breathe

9:36 - ingv The tchouameni valverde Pacific Islands Hit Number One

11:00 - The 50,000 Year Ocean Crossing

12:13 - The Neanderthal DNA Hiding In Africa

12:54 - The Unknown Ghost Species In West Africa

13:50 - Your Own Neanderthal Score

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SOURCES:

Green et al., Science (2010). First draft Neanderthal genome. Pbo / Max Planck Institute, Leipzig. Basis for the 1 to 2 percent Neanderthal claim and the whole premise.

Reich et al., Nature (2010). Denisovan genome from the Denisova Cave finger bone. The discovery of an entire human group from DNA alone.

Vernot & Akey, Science (2014). Showed roughly a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is recoverable across living people.

Huerta-Snchez, Nielsen et al., Nature (2014). Tibetan high-altitude EPAS1 gene traced to Denisovans.

Chen et al., Nature (2019). The Xiahe Denisovan jawbone from the Tibetan Plateau, the first piece found outside Siberia.

Jacobs et al., Cell (2019). Evidence that Papuans mixed with more than one deeply divergent Denisovan lineage.

Chen, Wolf, Fu, Li & Akey, Cell (2020). Neanderthal DNA found in Africans via back-migration (IBDmix). Princeton.

Durvasula & Sankararaman, Science Advances (2020). The unknown West African "ghost" archaic lineage.

Zeberg & Pbo, Nature (2020) and follow-up (2021). Neanderthal variants linked to both higher and lower COVID-19 risk.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2022). Awarded to Svante Pbo, copenhagen vs midtjylland anchoring the ancient-DNA method narrative.