Sentences with phrase «early modern human models»

Discover the science and art involved in making the Museum's Neanderthal and early modern human models.

Not exact matches

While it is widely accepted that the origins of modern humans date back some 200,000 years to Africa, there has been furious debate as to which model of early Homo sapiens migration most plausibly led to the population of the planet — and the eventual extinction of Neanderthals.

This result should give pause to evolutionary models that see a more modern human - like monogamous social structure evolving early in our lineage.

His weapon of choice is a bamboo rod attached to a sharpened stone, modeled after the killing tools wielded by early modern humans some 50,000 years ago, when they cohabited in Eurasia with their large - boned relatives, the Neanderthals.

An earlier version of this model had been designed to estimate how much modern humans and Neanderthals interbred.