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A simple unified explanation of several genetic issues on today's human population and on archaic humans

@article{Enflo2017ASU,
  title={A simple unified explanation of several genetic issues on today's human population and on archaic humans},
  author={Per Enflo and Gustavo A. Mu{\~n}oz-Fern{\'a}ndez and Juan B. Seoane-Sep{\'u}lveda},
  journal={arXiv: Populations and Evolution},
  year={2017}
}
We will give a simple, unified, possible explanation of several debated genetic issues on today's humans, Neandertals and Denisovans. 
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