Sentences with phrase «erectus populations»
However, these synapomorphies have been convincingly challenged by showing them to be present in erectus populations from Asia.
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The regional differentiation between African and Asian H. erectus populations, and the eventual transition of the former into H. heidelbergensis, and between H. sapiens and H. neanderthalensis suggests that there was limited gene flow between Africa and Asia.
Because they all lived in the same place at roughly the same time, this shows the extent of variation among H. erectus populations.
Not exact matches
Dmanisi team members, among others, contend that the Georgian fossils belong to a single early population of H. erectus or to a single sub-subspecies, Homo erectus ergaster georgicus.
A genome analysis suggests that Asian and Pacific human populations share a single origin and their ancestors might have bred with Homo erectus
Also small statured, the remains are hypothesized by the authors to be a predecessor population, possibly Homo erectus and small statured because of the «island effect.
Peter Andrews discusses the Middle Pleistocene specimens from Java and China, and earlier Pleistocene forms ER 3733 and 3883 from Africa, and the later European and African forms such as Arago, Heidelberg and Broken Hill (Rhodesian Man).79 He claims the African specimens may represent different species or a separate lineage from Asian forms giving rise to separate populations of H. sapiens in the later Pleistocene - that is, Solo Man from Java may be directly ancestral to the controversial Kow Swamp and Cossack erectus / sapiens populations in Australia about 6,000 - 13,000 years ago.
«If there had been significant contributions from Chinese H. erectus, they would show up in the genetic data,» says Li Hui, a population geneticist at Fudan University in Shanghai.
· Though hobbit - sized, the Liang Bua skeleton was perfectly well proportioned, and may represent the descendants of a population of Homo erectus that became isolated on Flores during the past few hundred thousand years.