Interactions between early modern humans and Neanderthals were a lot more common than we thought msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Apr. 7, 2021
Modern humanity began to evolve in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and began to exit the continent for Eurasia at least 200,000 years ago. The earliest Homo sapiens migrants out of Africa went extinct. All non-Africans descend from modern human migrants around 50,000 years ago – from some of them, that is.
Now two new genetic studies have identified three early humans in Bulgaria, whose descendants seem to live on, and a woman in the Czech Republic, as among the first to leave Africa in the Great Exit – but her line apparently went extinct.
All had Neanderthals in the family tree, and reveal our amatory secret: not only admixture, but a lot of it.
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, the new paper shows that the 45,000-year-old Bacho Kiro Cave people contributed genes to present-day people. “Surprisingly,” wrote the scientists, the bulk of these genes are to be found in modern day East Asia, and the Americas, while it was expected that these genes would be found in populations closer to where they lived, at the Bacho Kiro Cave in Europe.
Another skeleton was discovered in Bacho Kiro Cave dating to 35,000-year-ago, that was not related to the earlier people, and the researchers went so far as to say this person was “genetically distinct” from the cave’s earlier inhabitants. The scientists concluded that this genetic difference demonstrated the earliest history of modern humans in Europe “may have been tumultuous and involved population replacements.” One can only imagine that over 10,0000 years the population at any one cave would see hundreds of total overhauls.
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Modern humanity began to evolve in Africa at least 300,000 years ago and began to exit the continent for Eurasia at least 200,000 years ago. The earliest Homo sapiens migrants out of Africa went extinct. All non-Africans descend from modern human migrants around 50,000 years ago – from some of them, that is.
Now two new genetic studies have identified three early humans in Bulgaria, whose descendants seem to live on, and a woman in the Czech Republic, as among the first to leave Africa in the Great Exit – but her line apparently went extinct.
Oldest DNA From Modern Humans In Europe Suggests Recent Neanderthal Ancestors iflscience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from iflscience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.