{"id":73698,"date":"2012-08-31T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18118"},"modified":"2012-08-31T00:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T08:25:04","slug":"deep-dive-into-the-denisovans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/31\/deep-dive-into-the-denisovans\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep dive into the Denisovans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2012\/08\/29\/science.1224344.abstract\">probably seen<\/a> the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2012\/08\/29\/science.1224344.abstract\">Denisovan<\/a> paper in the media. <a href=\"http:\/\/johnhawks.net\/\">John Hawks<\/a> has an excellent overview, as you&#8217;d expect. The only thing I will add is to reiterate that <strong>I think population movements in near and far prehistory significantly obscure our comprehension of the patterns of past genetic variation.<\/strong> One reason that the Denisova hominin presents conundrums (e.g., how did Australians and Melanesians admix with a population whose only remains are found in Siberia) is that we&#8217;re viewing it through the lens of the present. What other lens can we view it through? We&#8217;re not time travelers. But we should be perhaps more conscious of the filter which that imposes upon our perception and model of the world. This is probably a time when it is best to have only a modest confidence in any given proposition about the prehistoric past.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I don&#8217;t know why, but I much like this tree:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/08\/F3.medium.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18119\" title=\"F3.medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/08\/F3.medium.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/ADZhULZ5lXk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have probably seen the new Denisovan paper in the media. John Hawks has an excellent overview, as you&#8217;d expect. The only thing I will add is to reiterate that I think population movements in near and far prehistory significantly obscur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1697,82,481,525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denisovan","category-genomics","category-human-genetics","category-human-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73768,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73698\/revisions\/73768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}