Under the leadership of Joshua Akey, a professor in Princeton's Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the researchers have found a history of genetic intermingling and exchange that ...

Now, groundbreaking research led by Joshua Akey, a professor at Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, has shed new light on our shared history with these fascinating hominins.

“The way in which certain breeds were created not only selected for traits that humans found desirable but it also saddled those breeds with a little bit more deleterious mutations than they would ...