Sentences with phrase «other archaic humans»
Published this week in Nature, the findings also hint at when modern humans interacted with other archaic humans.
http://www.sciencemag.org/
«We want to look throughout the world to see if we can find evidence of interbreeding with other archaic humans,» says Browning.
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.
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.
Other geneticists at the meeting zeroed in on archaic DNA «deserts,» where living humans have inherited no DNA from Neandertals or other archaic humans.
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.»
Homo naledi was likely there too, along with possibly still other archaic human species.
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.