Not exact matches
Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that
archaic humans,
such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern
human origins.
That in turn could help determine when
humans interbred with
archaic hominids on other continents —
such as Neandertals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia — whose genes linger in the DNA of some modern people (SN: 6/13/15, p. 11).
«It opens up our ability to ask questions about how Middle Pleistocene hominins lived in this region and it might be a key to understanding the nature of interbreeding and population dispersals across Eurasia with modern
humans and
archaic populations
such as Neanderthals.»
Such remains suggested that fish was consumed by these
archaic Humans.
Even the
archaic humans that might have been present then, like Homo erectus or the mysterious Denisovans, left
such flakes.
Discovered in Zhirendong, a cave in Guangxi province, the jaw has a classic modern -
human appearance, but retains some
archaic features of Peking Man,
such as a more robust build and a less - protruding chin.