Sentences with phrase «stone age relatives»
Unlike people in the rest of world, some modern - day Pacific Islanders have inherited genes from two different groups of Stone Age relatives.
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Previous genetic comparisons of present - day humans with Neandertals and their close Stone Age relatives, the Denisovans, had placed human origins at 400,000 years ago or more.
Not exact matches
Henshilwood and his co-authors have looked at climatic proxies relative to technological development in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa.
ANCIENT NETWORKERS DNA from four Stone Age people — including the two shown here as they looked when excavated, top, and at the time of death, bottom — suggests that hunter - gatherers have long formed groups with few close relatives.
The 2004 discovery of Homo floresiensis (SN: 10/30/04, p. 275: Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo find offers small surprise) suggested that this apparently close relative of Homo sapiens may have coexisted with modern humans as recently as 12,000 years ago (see «Little Ancestor, Big Debate,» in this week's issue).