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research indicates that the earliest modern humans in Europe during the Initial Upper Paleolithic (~45-40 kya) were part of the broader early expansion of Homo sapiens from Eurasia. Genetic data show that some early European individuals represent lineages that left little or no detectable ancestry in later European populations.However, other lineages present in Europe by ~38-37 kya are genetically closer to later Upper Paleolithic Europeans. These surviving Upper Paleolithic populations contributed ancestry to Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers,

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