Sentences with phrase «archaic humans it encountered»

Still, additional genetic analyses have typically led researchers to conclude that Homo sapiens arose in Africa and replaced the archaic humans it encountered as it spread out from its birthplace without mingling with them.

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When they did finally begin to disperse across the globe, according to this model, they replaced the archaic human species they encountered along the way, including the Neandertals, without interbreeding with them.