Pääbo suggests that X Woman may belong to a group of
archaic humans who migrated out of Africa at a different time from Neanderthals or modern humans.
Not exact matches
There were some
who postulated a retracing of
archaic repertoires that remained embedded in the final behavior, for example Paul MacLean's notion of a reptilian and protomammalian brain within the mature
human brain.2
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.
She also existed thousands of years after Neanderthals died out, and the paleoanthropologists
who found her think she's from a different species of
archaic humans.
«Population genetics theory tells us that means a small population size» for those
archaic humans, said Montgomery Slatkin, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley,
who was not convinced of Rogers» results.