Sentences with phrase «replaced by modern humans»
Neanderthals are thought to have emerged a few hundred thousand years ago and were eventually replaced by modern humans.
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Rather than modern humans rapidly replacing Neanderthals, there seems to have been a more complex picture «characterised by a biological and cultural mosaic that lasted for several thousand years».
According to this view, archaic humans were not replaced by anatomically modern humans, but rather, gene flow between Africa, Europe, and Asia, led to the evolution of modern humans from local populations.
The fact is that one school of thought («Regional Continuity») believes that all Middle Pleistocene Homo were really a genetic continuum, ancestral as a whole to modern humans; another («Replacement») believes that only the African ones were our ancestors, and the others more or less died out, replaced by the newcomers from Africa.
Paleoanthropologists have disagreed about how they relate to other human groups, some positing they were ancestors of both modern humans and Neanderthals, others that they were a nonancestral species replaced by the Neanderthals, who spread across Europe.