‘Well, who are we?’ Ancient bones, genes help pinpoint when humans and Neanderthals mixed and mingled
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‘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 thrive outside of Africa. Future genetic studies can help scientists untangle exactly what — and who — we’re made of, said Rick Potts, director of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins program, who was not involved with the new research.

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Scientists date remains of ancient child resembling both humans, Neanderthals
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Scientists date remains of ancient child resembling both humans, Neanderthals

The Hindu  

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. The child’s remains were discovered 27 years ago in a rock shelter called Lagar Velho in central Portugal. Small roots had grown through the bones and contamination — from plants or other sources …

Scientists date remains of an ancient child that resembles both humans and Neanderthals
3 weeks ago

Scientists date remains of an ancient child that resembles both humans and Neanderthals

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. Small roots had grown through the bones and contamination — from plants or other sources — made it impossible for scientists to use traditional carbon dating to measure the child’s …

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 …

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 …

Ancient genes pinpoint when humans and Neanderthals mixed and mingled
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ancient genes pinpoint when humans and Neanderthals mixed and mingled

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday. “Genetic data from these samples really helps us paint a picture in more and more detail,” said study co-author Priya Moorjani at the University of California Berkeley. And our genetic code also contains echoes from another group of extinct …

Breakthrough studies unveil traits of early Europeans and narrow timeline of breeding with Neanderthals
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Breakthrough studies unveil traits of early Europeans and narrow timeline of breeding 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 Two new studies have helped narrow down the time during which …

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

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 …

What our ancestors’ genomes can tell us about modern health | Explained
1 year, 1 month ago

What our ancestors’ genomes can tell us about modern health | Explained

The Hindu  

February 16, 2024 10:30 am | Updated February 19, 2024 05:17 pm IST Where did we come from? Studies of such ancestral DNA have provided glimpses into the genetic diversity and population dynamics of ancient communities, their migration patterns, interactions, and adaptations to local environments, and even into the diseases these people confronted and how the afflictions shaped human evolution. …

How Neanderthal DNA got ‘diluted’ among Europeans finally found
1 year, 5 months ago

How Neanderthal DNA got ‘diluted’ among Europeans finally found

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 Mingling of early Europeans with some of the first farmers from …

Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry
1 year, 5 months ago

Scientists may have untangled a mystery of Neanderthal ancestry

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — A new analysis of ancient genomes is deepening scientists’ understanding of the Neanderthal DNA carried by human populations in Europe and Asia — genetic traces that may have medical relevance today. “So what’s puzzling is that an area where we’ve never found any Neanderthal remains, there’s more Neanderthal DNA,” said …

We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy
1 year, 6 months ago

We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy

Associated Press  

Neanderthals live on within us. “The result today is, for some people, that our immune systems are oversensitive, and sometimes they turn on themselves.” Similarly, a gene associated with blood clotting believed to be passed down from Neanderthals in Eurasia may have been helpful in the “rough and tumble world of the Pleistocene,” said Rick Potts, director of the human …

We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy
1 year, 6 months ago

We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy

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. That may not sound like much, but it adds …

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 …

ARCHAEOLOGY | Why you owe your life to a handful of early humans
1 year, 6 months ago

ARCHAEOLOGY | Why you owe your life to a handful of early humans

The Hindu  

Published : Sep 02, 2023 15:38 IST - 3 MINS READ Imagine it is 9,00,000 years ago and you are wandering naked in the beautiful harshness of nature. “The fact that we are here today, populating this planet with over 8 billion individuals, means that we managed to survive myriad unfavourable events thanks to our adaptive abilities and, why not, …

Genome data sheds light on how Homo sapiens arose in Africa
1 year, 10 months ago

Genome data sheds light on how Homo sapiens arose in Africa

The Hindu  

Our species arose in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, with the oldest-known Homo sapiens fossils discovered at a site in Morocco called Jebel Irhoud, located between Marrakech and the Atlantic coast. But the scarcity of Homo sapiens fossils from early in our evolutionary history and the geographical spread of those remains in Africa in places like Ethiopia and South …

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 …

Science for All |  Research on social organisation of archaic humans
2 years, 5 months ago

Science for All |  Research on social organisation of archaic humans

The Hindu  

Shortly after Swedish research scientist Svante Paabo’s work in the field of Neanderthal genome sequencing was awarded the Nobel Prize, a new study revealed important findings about the social organisation of the primates. For the first time, a team of researchers led by Dr. Laurits Skov of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany has sequenced genetic data from …

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 …

Genetic sequencing gives us the first-ever look at a Neanderthal clan
2 years, 5 months ago

Genetic sequencing gives us the first-ever look at a Neanderthal clan

NPR  

Genetic sequencing gives us the first-ever look at a Neanderthal clan Enlarge this image toggle caption Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images One of the things that makes us special as a species is our ability to form communities, but we humans have not always been alone in that regard. "One drop of my …

Ancient DNA gives rare snapshot of Neanderthal family ties
2 years, 5 months ago

Ancient DNA gives rare snapshot of Neanderthal family ties

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A new study suggests Neanderthals formed small, tightknit communities where females may have traveled to move in with their mates. The research used genetic sleuthing to offer a rare snapshot of Neanderthal family dynamics — including a father and his teenage daughter who lived together in Siberia more than 50,000 years ago. These remains usually come in …

Ancient DNA gives rare snapshot of Neanderthal family ties
2 years, 5 months ago

Ancient DNA gives rare snapshot of Neanderthal family ties

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. The research used genetic sleuthing to offer a rare …

Humans and neanderthals ‘lived together for thousands of years’ study says
2 years, 5 months ago

Humans and neanderthals ‘lived together for thousands of years’ study says

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. The paper also suggests that humans may have lived …

Humans and Neanderthals co-existed in Europe for over 2,000 years: Study
2 years, 5 months ago

Humans and Neanderthals co-existed in Europe for over 2,000 years: Study

Hindustan Times  

Neanderthals and humans lived alongside each other in France and northern Spain for up to 2,900 years, modelling research suggested Thursday, giving them plenty of time to potentially learn from or even breed with each other. While the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, did not provide evidence that humans directly interacted with Neanderthals around 42,000 years ago, previous …

Explained | Does palaeogenomics explain our origins?
2 years, 5 months ago

Explained | Does palaeogenomics explain our origins?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Nobel Prize for Physiology this year has been awarded to Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist, who pioneered the field of palaeogenomics, or the study of ancient hominins by extracting their DNA. Pääbo pioneered the use of DNA, the genetic blueprint present in all life, to examine questions about the relatedness of various ancient human species. Pääbo’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  

Since then, traces of Denisovan DNA have been identified in some populations in the Philippines and elsewhere. Pääbo and his team sequenced the DNA and found it did not match any known sequences from Neanderthals and modern humans. Neanderthals, whose first fossils were discovered in a cave in Neandertal valley in Germany in 1856, lived in Europe and Western Asia …

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 …

1.5 million-year-old bone shines light on ancient human migration
3 years, 1 month ago

1.5 million-year-old bone shines light on ancient human migration

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. Co-lead author Prof Alon Barash, of Bar-Ilan University in …

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 …

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

Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows

LA Times  

A reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton, right, is on display alongside a modern human skeleton at the Museum of Natural History in New York. 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. “This kind of finding is …

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 …

This New Method will Reveal What Genes We Inherited from Neanderthals and Archaic Humans
3 years, 9 months ago

This New Method will Reveal What Genes We Inherited from Neanderthals and Archaic Humans

News 18  

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a new method that will help in searching human genetic information for beneficial mutations from Neanderthals, Denisovans and other archaic humans. As modern humans spread across the planet, beneficial genetic information, upon interaction with the environmental conditions, manifested in many mutations. Using the method, scientists not only confirmed the previous discoveries but …

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 …

Bulgarian cave remains reveal surprises about earliest Homo sapiens in Europe
3 years, 11 months ago

Bulgarian cave remains reveal surprises about earliest Homo sapiens in Europe

The Hindu  

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 …

Ancient Humans Might Have Mingled and Mated With the Neanderthals, Researchers Claim
4 years, 1 month ago

Ancient Humans Might Have Mingled and Mated With the Neanderthals, Researchers Claim

News 18  

Understanding human evolution can be a very complex subject, especially given our genus, Homo, which had more than twenty sub-species. Now, a team of researchers claim that we may not have been as distant as previously thought and that these two species might have inter-bred as well. Also known as “Fairies’ cave, the site has been a known habitat for …

Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like
4 years, 2 months ago

Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like

BBC  

Here's what we know sex with Neanderthals was like RM Flavio Massari/Alamy One thing the archaeological record cannot tell us is if Neanderthals and early modern humans were physically attracted to one another Scientists know a surprising amount about the titillating episode in human history when our species got together, including whether we kissed and the nature of their sexual …

Anthropology: Modern humans reached Europe's westernmost point when Neanderthals were still around
4 years, 6 months ago

Anthropology: Modern humans reached Europe's westernmost point when Neanderthals were still around

Daily Mail  

Modern humans first arrived in westernmost Europe 5,000 years earlier than was previously believed — and may have overlapped with Neanderthals — a study found. Archaeologists digging in the Lapa do Picareiro cave of central Portugal's Atlantic coast have unearthed stone tools, pictured, that are characteristic of modern humans 'The question whether the last surviving Neanderthals in Europe replaced or …

Bulgarian fossils show early arrival of Homo sapiens into Europe
4 years, 10 months ago

Bulgarian fossils show early arrival of Homo sapiens into Europe

India Today  

Fragmentary bone fossils and a molar found in Bulgaria dated to roughly 45,000 years ago show that Homo sapiens populations swept into Europe - until then a bastion for the Neanderthals - earlier than previously known, scientists said on Monday. Researchers said DNA from the five fossils from Bulgaria's Bacho Kiro cave demonstrated they belonged to anatomically modern Homo sapiens. …

Neanderthal fathers were younger than Homo sapiens, but mothers were older, study says
4 years, 11 months ago

Neanderthal fathers were younger than Homo sapiens, but mothers were older, study says

CNN  

CNN — When human ancestors left Africa and met Neanderthals in Europe 50,000 years ago, they had children together and clues were left behind in modern human DNA. Another aspect of the study revealed more information about the potential risk of disease that Neanderthal genes pose in modern human DNA. “However, our study shows that the human gene variants located …

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 …

Neanderthal DNA found in African people for first time ever
5 years, 1 month ago

Neanderthal DNA found in African people for first time ever

Daily Mail  

Scientists have found, for the first time, conclusive evidence that Neanderthal DNA exists in modern-day Africans. A new study by Princeton University reveals that African people — who were previously thought to have no Neanderthal DNA — got around 0.3 per cent of their genes from our ancient ancestors. African people obtained a sliver of Neanderthal DNA after breeding with …

All modern humans have Neanderthal DNA, new research finds
5 years, 1 month ago

All modern humans have Neanderthal DNA, new research finds

CNN  

CNN — We all likely have a bit of Neanderthal in our DNA – including Africans who had been thought to have no genetic link to our extinct human relative, a new study finds. “This is the first time we can detect the actual signal of Neanderthal ancestry in Africans,” said Lu Chen, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton’s Lewis-Sigler …

Genetic studies show that human beings lead to the extinction of the cave bear
5 years, 7 months ago

Genetic studies show that human beings lead to the extinction of the cave bear

Firstpost  

Homo sapiens originated in Africa more than 300,000 years ago and later spreading worldwide. Genetic research that reconstructed the past population dynamics of the cave bear, a prominent prehistoric denizen of Europe, implicates Homo sapiens rather than climate cooling in the Ice Age extinction of these brawny plant-loving beasts. Using this, they detected a population downturn roughly 50,000 years ago …

The skull that proves modern humans arrived in Europe 150,000 years earlier than thought
5 years, 7 months ago

The skull that proves modern humans arrived in Europe 150,000 years earlier than thought

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 Modern humans arrived in Eurasia more than 150,000 years earlier than …

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