Outstanding questions in the study of archaic hominin admixture. Author Aaron Wolf, Joshua Akey Publication Year 2018 Type Journal Article Abstract The complete sequencing of archaic and modern human genomes has revolutionized the study of human history and evolution. The application of paleogenomics has answered questions that were beyond the scope of archaeology alone-definitively proving admixture between archaic and modern humans. Despite the remarkable progress made in the study of archaic-modern human admixture, many outstanding questions remain. Here, we review some of these questions, which include how frequent archaic-modern human admixture was in history, to what degree drift and selection are responsible for the loss and retention of introgressed sequences in modern human genomes, and how surviving archaic sequences affect human phenotypes. Keywords Animals, Models, Genetic, Humans, Evolution, Molecular, Genome, Human, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Genetics, Population, Adaptation, Biological, Gene Flow, Hominidae Journal PLoS Genet Volume 14 Issue 5 Pages e1007349 Date Published 05/2018 ISSN Number 1553-7404 DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007349 Alternate Journal PLoS Genet. PMCID PMC5978786 PMID 29852022 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML