(CNN) — Researchers have used genetics to create the largest human family tree ever made, allowing individuals to find out who their distant ancestors were and where they lived, as well as exactly how ...

It’s long past time to stop thinking of humanity’s nearest relatives as forming a family tree. Our close relatives like the Neanderthals and Denisovans clearly interbred both with us and each other.

The new tree instead peels Neanderthals off first, with modern humans and Denisovans diverging later — over a million years ago. That raises an unsettling possibility: maybe the birthplace of our ...

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