Sentences with phrase «waves modern human populations»

Not exact matches

Not only does this suggest modern humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.

The authors of the study, an international team from Portuguese, Spanish, Catalonian, German, Austrian and Italian research institutions, say their findings suggest that the process of modern human populations absorbing Neanderthal populations through interbreeding was not a regular, gradual wave - of - advance but a «stop - and - go, punctuated, geographically uneven history.»

The genome analysis also questions previous findings that modern humans populated Asia in two waves from their origin in Africa, finding instead a common origin for all populations in the Asia - Pacific region, dating back to a single out - of - Africa migration event.

Alternatively, East Asia may have been colonised during multiple waves during the Pleistocene, with the Longlin - Maludong morphology possibly reflecting deep population substructure in Africa prior to modern humans dispersing into Eurasia.