Modern humans may have interbred with extinct line
13 years, 6 months ago

Modern humans may have interbred with extinct line

The Hindu  

Modern humans may have interbred with a now extinct lineage of humanity before leaving Africa 65,000 yeas ago, according to a new research. DNA studies have already proved that ancestors of modern humans got intimate with Neanderthals in Europe and another Asian relative called the Denisovans. Now, researchers found that our earliest ancestors interbred with a hitherto unknown human lineage and it may date to beyond the point when anatomically modern humans first emerged 200,000 years ago. The species who may have contributed to the modern gene pool include Homo erectus, the upright walking man, and the “tool-using man” Homo habilis, the researchers said.

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Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
1 month, 1 week ago

Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters

Live Mint  

In 2010 researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, published the genome of Homo neanderthalensis, a species known in less progressive days as Neanderthal man. They conclude that sapiens-neanderthalensis crossings occurred several times, but the consequences of only one such hybridisation, shortly before Neanderthals became extinct, 40,000 years ago, remain important today. One paper, in Science, …

Neanderthals and humans mated more recently than we thought! Ancient species interbred with our ancestors within the past 50,000 years, study finds - rewriting the story of our evolution
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Neanderthals and humans mated more recently than we thought! Ancient species interbred with our ancestors within the past 50,000 years, study finds - rewriting the story of our evolution

Daily Mail  

After humans first migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, we started having sex with Neanderthals – a now extinct archaic but closely-related species. She may have been among some of the first Homo sapiens to have mated with Neanderthals Key events in Neanderthal and human history 300,000 years ago - Homo sapiens emerge in Africa 60,000 to 70,000 …

‘Well, who are we?’ Ancient bones, genes help pinpoint when humans and Neanderthals mixed and mingled
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3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Well, who are we?’ Ancient bones, genes help pinpoint when humans and Neanderthals mixed and mingled

LA Times  

This fragment of a skull of an ancient woman dubbed Zlaty kun, found in the Czech Republic, helped researchers pinpoint when humans and Neanderthals mated. Neanderthals and humans probably mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday. They found Neanderthal genes related to immunity and metabolism that may have helped early humans survive and …

Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals
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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Martin Schutt/picture alliance/Getty Images A broader study on Neanderthal ancestry, published Thursday in the journal Science, that analyzed information from the genomes of 59 ancient humans and those of 275 living humans corroborated the more precise timeline, finding that the majority of Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans can be attributed to a …

Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Oldest human DNA helps pinpoint when early humans interbred with Neanderthals

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Martin Schutt/picture alliance/Getty Images A broader study on Neanderthal ancestry, published Thursday in the journal Science, that analyzed information from the genomes of 59 ancient humans and those of 275 living humans corroborated the more precise timeline, finding that the majority of Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans can be attributed to a …

Pinning down the details of how and when Neanderthals and homo sapiens interbred
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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Pinning down the details of how and when Neanderthals and homo sapiens interbred

NPR  

Pinning down the details of how and when Neanderthals and homo sapiens interbred Tens of thousands of years ago, modern humans mated with Neanderthals. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Look at the DNA of most people living outside of Africa today, and you'll see that tens of thousands of years ago, early modern humans mated with Neanderthals and had babies. DANIEL: Sumer …

Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths
4 months ago

Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “It’s surprising that you would have two kinds of similarly sized, large-bodied hominin species on the same landscape,” said Kevin Hatala, first author of a study on the footprints that published in the journal Science on Thursday. Briana Pobiner, a research scientist and museum educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …

Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths
4 months ago

Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals the moment two ancient human species crossed paths

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “It’s surprising that you would have two kinds of similarly sized, large-bodied hominin species on the same landscape,” said Kevin Hatala, first author of a study on the footprints that published in the journal Science on Thursday. Briana Pobiner, a research scientist and museum educator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …

Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?
4 months ago

Their DNA survives in diverse populations across the world – but who were the Denisovans?

Raw Story  

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Modern humans later evolved in Africa, spread across the globe, and encountered Neanderthals, Denisovans and possibly other unknown archaic human groups. These immune-related genes might have played crucial roles in protecting ancient and modern humans from south and east Asia, …

Chinese, US scientists identify gene flow of modern humans with Neanderthals
8 months, 1 week ago

Chinese, US scientists identify gene flow of modern humans with Neanderthals

China Daily  

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-07-16 16:32 NANJING -- A collaborative team of scientists from China and the United States has found ample evidence for gene flow between modern human and its prehistoric cousin Neanderthals. The result has shown that the Neanderthal genomes contain between 2.5 and 3.7 percent of genetic sequences originating from modern humans, according to the study published in …

Chinese, US scientists identify gene flow of modern humans with Neanderthals
8 months, 1 week ago

Chinese, US scientists identify gene flow of modern humans with Neanderthals

China Daily  

NANJING -- A collaborative team of scientists from China and the United States has found ample evidence for gene flow between modern human and its prehistoric cousin Neanderthals. The result has shown that the Neanderthal genomes contain between 2.5 and 3.7 percent of genetic sequences originating from modern humans, according to the study published in the latest edition of the …

Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans
1 year, 6 months ago

Science paints a new picture of the ancient past, when we mixed and mated with other kinds of humans

Associated Press  

What does it mean to be human? “A different way to be human.” What’s more, humans had close — even intimate — interactions with some of these other groups, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and “ghost populations” we only know from DNA. Archaeologist John Shea of New York’s Stony Brook University said he used to think of Neanderthals and H. sapiens as …

Genomic clues suggest humans’ ancestors nearly went extinct 9L years ago
1 year, 6 months ago

Genomic clues suggest humans’ ancestors nearly went extinct 9L years ago

The Hindu  

The human population on the earth exceeded eight billion people in November 2022, underscoring our species’ status as the dominant force on our planet, with our unparalleled cognitive abilities and technological prowess, and ability to harness, engineer, and reshape the environment around us. For example, in a March 2018 paper, researchers concluded that sickle cell anaemia arose around 7,300 years …

Scientists uncover devastating event that may have led to humanity’s doom 900,000 years ago
1 year, 6 months ago

Scientists uncover devastating event that may have led to humanity’s doom 900,000 years ago

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Early human ancestors went through a prolonged period of very low …

300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before
1 year, 7 months ago

300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research. Scientists believe the late Middle Pleistocene, which started around 300,000 years ago, was a pivotal period for …

Indians too have gene traces of ancient ‘humans’ like Neanderthals and Denisovans: CDFD Director Thangaraj
2 years, 4 months ago

Indians too have gene traces of ancient ‘humans’ like Neanderthals and Denisovans: CDFD Director Thangaraj

The Hindu  

Ancient Indian DNA has shown that there are traces of genes of Neanderthals, who lived mostly in Europe, and Denisovans, who lived in Southeast Asia, indicating the complex admix of populations over millions of years of evolution, said Director of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics K. Thangaraj on Monday. Dr. Paabo also found that the gene transfer had occurred …

Mapping ancient humans' DNA is showing us how we evolved — and how their DNA affects us today
2 years, 5 months ago

Mapping ancient humans' DNA is showing us how we evolved — and how their DNA affects us today

Salon  

When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different compared to today. His persistence in developing tools to extract, sequence and interpret ancient DNA enabled sequencing the genomes of Neanderthals, Denisovans and early modern humans who lived over 45,000 years ago. In 2014, my group and David Reich's …

How Nobel winner tracked human evolution, interactions with extinct relatives
2 years, 5 months ago

How Nobel winner tracked human evolution, interactions with extinct relatives

Hindustan Times  

What makes human beings human? Over decades of research, he sequenced the genome of Neanderthals to establish that they interbred with humans, identified the mysterious Denosivans as a species distinct from both modern humans and Neanderthals, and pioneered of the science of analysing genetic information from extinct species, known today as palaeogenomics. The three species Neanderthals, whose first fossils were …

Six discoveries that changed how we think about human origins
2 years, 6 months ago

Six discoveries that changed how we think about human origins

The Hindu  

Scientific study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order to things. In the last few years we have realised that our Homo sapiens ancestors may have met as many as eight of these different types of human, from robust and stocky species including Neanderthals and their close relatives Denisovans, to the short and small-brained humans such as …

Biggest genetic ‘family tree’ for humanity developed by scientists
3 years ago

Biggest genetic ‘family tree’ for humanity developed by scientists

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have been able to map out humanity’s entire “family tree” …

Just 7 per cent of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows
3 years, 8 months ago

Just 7 per cent of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington: What makes humans unique? Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern humans and that of our extinct ancestors. “That’s a pretty small percentage,” said Nathan Schaefer, a University of California computational biologist and co-author of the new paper. “This kind …

Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows
3 years, 8 months ago

Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring …

Researchers identify a new type of early human with no chin and large teeth from around 400,000 years ago
3 years, 9 months ago

Researchers identify a new type of early human with no chin and large teeth from around 400,000 years ago

The Independent  

Researchers in Israel have identified a new type of early human, thought to be the ancestor of Neanderthals, and a missing link in the story of human evolution. “The archaeological finds associated with human fossils show that Nesher Ramla Homo possessed advanced stone tool production technologies and most likely interacted with the local Homo sapiens.” Despite a lack of DNA …

Human Remains from Bulgarian Cave Reveal 'Surpising' Facts about First Homo Sapiens of Europe
3 years, 11 months ago

Human Remains from Bulgarian Cave Reveal 'Surpising' Facts about First Homo Sapiens of Europe

News 18  

DNA extracted from remains found in a Bulgarian cave of three people who lived roughly 45,000 years ago is revealing surprises about some of the first Homo sapiens populations to venture into Europe, including extensive interbreeding with Neanderthals and genetic links to present-day East Asians. Scientists said on Wednesday they sequenced the genomes of these three individuals – all males …

Researchers find genes of mysterious human species that interbred with Africans thousands of years ago
5 years, 1 month ago

Researchers find genes of mysterious human species that interbred with Africans thousands of years ago

Firstpost  

Not much is known about this ghost population other than they seemed to diverge from the evolutionary line around 650,000 years ago. Scientists examining the genomes of West Africans have detected signs that a mysterious extinct human species interbred with our own species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa, the latest evidence of humankind’s complicated genetic ancestry. The …

Now there's ANOTHER ancient hominin species!
5 years, 11 months ago

Now there's ANOTHER ancient hominin species!

Daily Mail  

Another branch has been added to the complex story of human evolution as scientists claim to have discovered an entirely new archaic hominin species. Researchers now claim there may have been two completely separate types of Denisovans that lived in different parts of the world 'We used to think it was just us - modern humans - and Neanderthals,' says …

DNA reveals first inter-species child
6 years, 7 months ago

DNA reveals first inter-species child

The Hindu  

Denny was an inter-species love child. First direct link “There was earlier evidence of interbreeding between different hominin, or early human, groups,” said lead author Viviane Slon, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Analysis of the bone’s DNA left no doubt: the chromosomes were a 50-50 mix of Neanderthal and Denisovan, two distinct species of early …

Modern humans mated with extinct human species of Denisovans more than once, find scientists
7 years ago

Modern humans mated with extinct human species of Denisovans more than once, find scientists

India Today  

You've heard of Neanderthals, but some of you might be unsure of who the Denisovans were. Denisovans The Denisovans are an extinct species or subspecies of humans in the same genus Homo, but have widely been debated over A few years ago, studies in the Altai Cave identified this new and rather mysterious human group, and inferred that they ranged …

Humans bred with mysterious Denisovan species more than once, study reveals
7 years ago

Humans bred with mysterious Denisovan species more than once, study reveals

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Yet a new study in the journal Cell shows that the ancient hanky-panky did not …

Move over, Neanderthals: Our ancestors mated with Denisovans not once but twice, scientists say
7 years ago

Move over, Neanderthals: Our ancestors mated with Denisovans not once but twice, scientists say

LA Times  

Humans weren’t just making babies with Neanderthals back in the day. Denisovans, close cousins of modern humans and Neanderthals, were first described in 2010 after the discovery of a fossil finger bone from a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia. But it’s difficult to learn a whole lot about the mark that Denisovans left on modern humans based primarily …

DNA tests on prehistoric femur sheds new light on origins of man
7 years, 8 months ago

DNA tests on prehistoric femur sheds new light on origins of man

The Telegraph  

Early humans migrated from Africa and mated with Neanderthals much earlier than previously thought, a new study has claimed. It had been assumed that homo sapiens evolved in Africa 300,000 years ago and then a small group migrated to other continents about 70,000 years ago. Now it is believed the migration away from Africa took place 270,000 years ago. The …

300,000-year-old oldest Homo sapiens fossil changes human evolution story
7 years, 9 months ago

300,000-year-old oldest Homo sapiens fossil changes human evolution story

India Today  

Researchers have found the oldest fossils till date of Homo sapiens. Till now, the oldest Homo sapiens fossils found were from the site of Omo Kibish in Ethiopia and were dated to be from around 195,000 years ago. However, this recent finding tells us that Homo Sapiens or modern humans evolved around 100,000 years earlier! The excavation site of Jebel …

Renewing history! Scientists locate unknown ancestor of man in Andaman
8 years, 8 months ago

Renewing history! Scientists locate unknown ancestor of man in Andaman

India TV News  

In a discovery that could potentially challenge the history of human evolution, an Indo-Spanish team of researchers caught hold of a centuries old, but still unknown descendant of a new family of early men in India’s Andaman island. Although there isn’t a fossil record of them yet, but the team, which comprises of researchers from the National Institute of BioMedical …

Neanderthals, humans interbred a lakh years ago: study
9 years, 1 month ago

Neanderthals, humans interbred a lakh years ago: study

The Hindu  

Neanderthals may have been mating with modern humans 100,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new study based on several different methods of DNA analysis has found. Scientists provide the first genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with the now-extinct members of the human …

Neanderthals had human DNA too, suggesting Homo sapiens left Africa earlier than thought
9 years, 1 month ago

Neanderthals had human DNA too, suggesting Homo sapiens left Africa earlier than thought

ABC  

Remains of a Neanderthal woman who lived around 100,000 years ago in the Altai Mountains of Siberia reveal that human and Neanderthals mated much earlier than previously thought. Key points: Genome of Neanderthal from Siberia contains human DNA Suggests Neanderthals and humans met and mated 100,000 years ago Early wave of humans did not contribute to today's Homo sapiens One …

Jawbone of 'first man' goes on display: 2.8 million-year-old human ancestor fossil is unveiled in Arizona
10 years ago

Jawbone of 'first man' goes on display: 2.8 million-year-old human ancestor fossil is unveiled in Arizona

Daily Mail  

A momentous and valuable piece of our evolutionary history has gone on display to the public. They had brains no larger than a chimpanzee's 2.8 million years ago - LD 350-1 appeared and may be the first of the Homo family 2.7 million years ago - Paranthropus, lived in woods and had massive jaws for chewing 2.3 million years ago …

Neanderthals interbred for longer with East Asian humans, DNA reveals
10 years, 1 month ago

Neanderthals interbred for longer with East Asian humans, DNA reveals

Daily Mail  

Experts say Neanderthals in the East may have outlived those in Europe Their remains are concentrated in Europe and as far east as central Asia But the ancestors of East Asians may have interbred for a second time They say Europeans appear to have interbred on just one occasion They are largely thought to have roamed the freezing landscapes of …

Oldest complete human genome sequenced: DNA of 45,000-year-old man who roamed Siberia unravelled - and it sheds light on when we stopped interbreeding with Neanderthals
10 years, 5 months ago

Oldest complete human genome sequenced: DNA of 45,000-year-old man who roamed Siberia unravelled - and it sheds light on when we stopped interbreeding with Neanderthals

Daily Mail  

when they moved from Africa into Europe, between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago - a more accurate date than previously known Scientists have sequenced the oldest complete human genome. The DNA comes from an anatomically modern man who roamed Western Siberia 45,000 years ago. The orange dots indicate Neanderthals, blue Denisovans and green, modern humans THE DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS …

Neanderthal DNA dating back 50,000 years reveals that our ancestors were 'highly INBRED'
11 years, 3 months ago

Neanderthal DNA dating back 50,000 years reveals that our ancestors were 'highly INBRED'

Daily Mail  

Neanderthal DNA dating back 50,000 years reveals that our ancestors were 'highly INBRED' Discovery was made after DNA analysis on a Neanderthal woman's toe bone Her mother and father were closely related and may have been half-siblings Inbreeding may have been result of Neanderthal population being very small Scientists say many people alive today still carry ancient Neanderthal genes Neanderthals …

Mixing It Up 50,000 Years Ago — Who Slept With Whom?
11 years, 3 months ago

Mixing It Up 50,000 Years Ago — Who Slept With Whom?

NPR  

Mixing It Up 50,000 Years Ago — Who Slept With Whom? toggle caption Bence Viola/Nature In a remote cave in Siberia, scientists have found a 50,000-year-old bone from a toe that tells a story about life — and love — among some of the earliest humans. Sponsor Message Enlarge this image toggle caption Bence Viola/Nature Bence Viola/Nature Scientists subsequently found …

Researchers present new human ancestor candidate
11 years, 11 months ago

Researchers present new human ancestor candidate

The Hindu  

A part-human and part-ape-like creature that existed 2 million years ago in South Africa, had a pigeon-toed gait, human-like front teeth, and was an able climber, new research has found. Researchers at Wits University in South Africa, including Peter Schmid from the University of Zurich, have described the anatomy of a single early hominin in six new studies. The fossils …

New finding casts doubt on theory that ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals
12 years, 1 month ago

New finding casts doubt on theory that ancestors of modern humans interbred with Neanderthals

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A new finding has cast doubt on the theory that ancestors …

Genome of ancient Denisovans may help clarify human evolution
12 years, 6 months ago

Genome of ancient Denisovans may help clarify human evolution

LA Times  

Our ancestors didn’t walk alone: Neanderthals and other ancient peoples shared Earth with them tens of thousands of years ago. Analysis of the genome and comparisons with ours and the Neanderthals’ will offer insights into the history of Homo sapiens — who we mated with, where and when — as well as the unique genetic changes that make modern humans …

Was the human race given an ever-lasting boost by breeding with Neanderthal man?
13 years, 7 months ago

Was the human race given an ever-lasting boost by breeding with Neanderthal man?

Daily Mail  

Was the human race given an ever-lasting boost by breeding with Neanderthal man? Ideal partner: Scientists believe interbreeding with Neanderthals boosted human beings' brainpower This, in turn, vastly sped up our evolution, and gave us the strength and resilience needed to populate the world. This includes one Neanderthal immune system gene called HLA-C*0702, which is also quite common in modern …

Leaky Replacement: Human, Neanderthal And Denisovan Blends : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
14 years, 1 month ago

Leaky Replacement: Human, Neanderthal And Denisovan Blends : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

NPR  

Leaky Replacement: Human, Neanderthal And Denisovan Blends Understandings of human origins have undergone many seismic shifts since the accounts in Genesis and other sacred texts, but several findings this year might well be described as > 7 on the Richter scale. Since the most recent Neanderthal fossils date to 30,000 years ago, most scientists, until this year, understandably concluded that …

Tracing human lineage through ancient DNA
14 years, 4 months ago

Tracing human lineage through ancient DNA

The Hindu  

It is an interest that began with the pyramids and mummies of ancient Egypt. He was successful and in 1985 published a single-author paper in Nature titled “Molecular cloning of Ancient Egyptian mummy DNA.” DNA degrades rapidly to really short fragments in ancient remains, said Dr. Pääbo. However, when the draft genome sequence of the Neanderthal nuclear DNA was published …

Neanderthal genes in us
14 years, 10 months ago

Neanderthal genes in us

The Hindu  

Did Neanderthals and modern humans interbreed? Researchers compared DNA sequences of Neanderthals obtained from bones found in different locations with those of five present-day humans — from southern Africa, West Africa, France, China, and Papua New Guinea. The gene flow might be low, but individuals from China and Papua New Guinea have been found to carry the Neanderthal genes. The …

You’re a Neanderthal: Genes say yes _ a little bit
14 years, 10 months ago

You’re a Neanderthal: Genes say yes _ a little bit

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — We have met Neanderthal and he is us — at least a little. Their findings, reported in Friday’s edition of the journal Science, show a relationship between Neanderthals and modern people outside Africa, Paabo said. He said, one way to look at this data could be to say people outside Africa are more primitive, while another way could …

A new human species
14 years, 11 months ago

A new human species

The Hindu  

Nearly 10 years after the genome of a living individual was first sequenced, and shortly after the sequencing of the genome of a 4,000-year-old male Eskimo, scientists have successfully sequenced the mitochondrial DNA genome of a nearly 40,000-year-old hominin. However, nuclear DNA genome data need to corroborate mtDNA findings for the hominin to be called a new human species, and …

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