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There's no telling what kinds of fishermen's tales they told, but the early modern humans who lived on tiny Okinawa Island between mainland Japan and Taiwan nearly 30,000 years ago are the world's oldest known anglers.

Anthropologists have long debated about a penetrating wound seen in Shanidar 3's rib cage: Was he injured by another Neanderthal in a fight — or was it an early modern human who went after him?

Not exact matches

Ice Age Immigrants (Eurasia 7,000 - 45,000 years ago) aDNA from 51 individuals reveals the earliest modern humans to reach Europe went extinct; those arriving in subsequent waves, starting 37,000 years ago, left descendants who remain to this day.

«This means that modern humans emerged earlier than previously thought,» says Mattias Jakobsson, population geneticist at Uppsala University who headed the project together with Stone Age archaeologist Marlize Lombard at the University of Johannesburg.

Researchers sequencing Neandertal DNA have concluded that between 1 and 4 percent of the DNA of people today who live outside Africa came from Neandertals, the result of interbreeding between Neandertals and early modern humans.

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.

Flo is «one of the most complete fossils found anywhere until you get to true burials, like in Neanderthals and early modern humans,» says Jungers, who has been closely involved in Homo floresiensis research.

When Skinner and his colleagues looked at the metacarpals of early human species and neanderthals — who also used stone flakes for tasks like scraping and butchering — they found bone ends that were shaped like modern human bones, and unlike ape bones.

Analyzing 379 new genomes from 125 populations worldwide, the group concludes that at least 2 % of the genomes of people from Papua New Guinea comes from an early dispersal of modern humans, who left Africa perhaps 120,000 years ago.

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

«This demonstrates it was not a failed dispersal,» says Petraglia, who has long argued for an early expansion of modern humans through Asia on a southerly route.