Homo naledi was likely there too, along with possibly still
other archaic human species.
It also means that modern humans were potentially meeting and interacting during a longer period of time with
other archaic human groups, providing more opportunity for cultural and biological exchanges.»
Other geneticists at the meeting zeroed in on archaic DNA «deserts,» where living humans have inherited no DNA from Neandertals or
other archaic humans.
Pääbo, for his part, says that now that his team has shown that early modern humans interbred with one archaic group, he thinks
other archaic humans might have passed along genes to us through interbreeding.
After the first Homo sapiens arose in Africa, several bands walked out of the continent about 60,000 years ago and into the arms of Neandertals and
other archaic humans.
«We want to look throughout the world to see if we can find evidence of interbreeding with
other archaic humans,» says Browning.
Published this week in Nature, the findings also hint at when modern humans interacted with
other archaic humans.
Not exact matches
Before dismissing Augustine as being ancient, his dilemma as being
archaic and his solutions as being irrelevant, it is well that we take a close look at what has been happening in secular education and also at the relationship between
human / social studies in secular institutions on the one hand and Christian institutions on the
other.
«What has emerged from our study as well as from
other work on introgression is that interbreeding with
archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern
humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.
That in turn could help determine when
humans interbred with
archaic hominids on
other continents — such as Neandertals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia — whose genes linger in the DNA of some modern people (SN: 6/13/15, p. 11).
«We suspect this means that
archaic humans and
other hominins had already influenced mammal diversity and body size in the late - Pleistocene.»
As
archaic humans, Neanderthals and
other hominin species migrated out of Africa, what followed was a wave of size - biased extinction in mammals on all continents that intensified over time.
After comparing the angle in a wide range of fossil hominids and representative modern peoples — urban, foraging and agricultural — Trinkaus concludes that the femoral neck - shaft angles of the Levantine Neanderthals (augmented with material from sites in Iran) are similar to those of
other «
archaic»
humans.
Here we report newly discovered
human fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and interpret the affinities of the hominins from this site with
other archaic and recent
human groups.