A paper in Nature Genetics infers that two lineages split c. 1.5 million
years ago, and that c. 300,000 year ago hybridisation produced a
population ancestral to modern humans, with 80% of its ancestry from one lineage, and 20% from the other.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1#MOESM2
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