Re:Rethinking our human origins in Africa
by pharrington on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:22PM
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Homo sapiens evolved within African, from several apparently separate and only occasionally intermixing populations.
My intuition is that something extremely similar happened for Neanderthals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia.
After speciating, Denisovans and Neanderthals migrated at least within Eurasia, and those populations intermixed.
At least as early as that was happening, Homo sapiens started migrating out of Africa, and intermixed with the Homo genus populations they encountered. At some later point, distinctly Neanderthal, Denisovan, and Neanderthal/Denisovan populations apparently died off.
My intuition is that something extremely similar happened for Neanderthals in Europe and Denisovans in Asia.
After speciating, Denisovans and Neanderthals migrated at least within Eurasia, and those populations intermixed.
At least as early as that was happening, Homo sapiens started migrating out of Africa, and intermixed with the Homo genus populations they encountered. At some later point, distinctly Neanderthal, Denisovan, and Neanderthal/Denisovan populations apparently died off.