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Table 2 Estimated TMRCAs of modern human and selected hominins

From: Dating ancient splits in phylogenetic trees, with application to the human-Neanderthal split

Sample

BEAST2

Method 1

Method 2

Method 3

Altai

 

425.75 (±39.9)

423.51 (±39.47)

421.09 (±39.02)

Denisova15

 

427.61 (±39.38)

425.13 (±38.91)

422.75 (±38.54)

HST

 

414.19 (±40.78)

411.68 (±40.34)

409.72 (±39.95)

Mezmaiskaya1

 

430.56 (±41.13)

428.13 (±40.6)

425.64 (±40.28)

Chagyrskaya08

 

416.76 (±39.93)

414.23 (±39.36)

411.74 (±39.07)

ElSidron1253

 

403.37 (±38.1)

400.94 (±37.58)

398.43 (±37.23)

Vindija33.17

 

410.96 (±39.74)

408.44 (±39.19)

406.05 (±38.86)

Feldhofer1

 

399.36 (±38.45)

396.93 (±37.91)

394.37 (±37.59)

GoyetQ56-1

 

416.06 (±39.76)

413.6 (±39.11)

411.1 (±38.86)

GoyetQ57-2

 

394.71 (±38.28)

392.28 (±37.78)

389.72 (±37.43)

Les Cottes Z4-1514

 

428.91 (±41.04)

426.3 (±40.42)

423.95 (±40.07)

Mezmaiskaya2

 

395.99 (±38.64)

393.58 (±38.11)

391.02 (±37.74)

Vindija33.16

 

409.84 (±39.4)

407.47 (±38.81)

404.79 (±38.53)

Vindija33.25

 

399.91 (±39.27)

397.48 (±38.74)

394.92 (±38.4)

GoyetQ305-7

 

418.16 (±40.35)

415.45 (±39.69)

413.3 (±39.4)

GoyetQ374a-1

 

418.16 (±39.72)

415.45 (±39.07)

413.3 (±38.8)

Spy 94a

 

415.03 (±40.47)

412.57 (±39.83)

410.07 (±39.55)

Humans-Neandertals

507.13 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)33.86)

410.46 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)37.12)

408.02 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)36.78)

405.67 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)36.29)

Sima de los Huesos

 

850.67 (±66.75)

840.25 (±65.49)

837.38 (±65.06)

Denisova2

 

866.15 (±60.08)

851.42 (±57.98)

847.86 (±57.63)

Denisova8

 

850.67 (±61.93)

835.27 (±59.65)

832.22 (±59.4)

Denisova4

 

860.43 (±62.55)

843.23 (±60.36)

838.71 (±59.91)

Denisova3

 

853.07 (±60.73)

836.1 (±58.52)

831.41 (±58.13)

Humans-Denisovans-Sima

1,017.98 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)53.56)

856.2 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)54.75)

841.26 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)52.89)

837.52 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)52.29)

Humans-Chimpanzee

7,292.72 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)545.48)

5,693.51 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)302.59)

5,009.78 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)235.05)

5,005.39 (\(\varvec{\pm }\)237.13)

  1. The table displays the estimated TMRCAs (in kya) between modern humans and selected hominins, as determined by our methods and compared with BEAST2. The standard deviation, which arises from a combination of the standard deviation of our methods and the sample dating, is given in parentheses. It’s important to note that BEAST2 calculates the TMRCA for all sequences in the same clade as a single estimate, while our methods estimate the TMRCA for each sample individually by taking the average of estimations derived from comparing the sample with every modern human sequence in the dataset