Sentences with phrase «modern human family tree»

Thus, there must have been a long lag between when this group branched off the modern human family tree, roughly 200,000 years ago, and when they left their genetic mark in the Altai Neanderthal, about 100,000 years ago, before themselves being lost to extinction.

Not exact matches

The new tooth also contains DNA unlike that of Neandertals or modern humans, suggesting that Denisovans interbred with an even more mysterious branch of the human family tree — one that is either unknown to science, or known only from fossils without preserved DNA.
By comparing mutations from enough people, researchers can construct family trees with roots that reach back to the earliest modern humans.
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