How does that comport with modern humans still having some admixture from them?
Modern Humans can be an admixture of several species if the ancestors to modern humans either migrated south to Africa or continued to survive in some place like Arabia, but perhaps we just haven't found the right fossil yet. Assuming Sapiens and Neanderthals mixed together in the Levant then they either survived in the Levant or they moved south into Africa and then later expanded out of Africa.
This is fascinating and new to me, can you provide any articles or podcasts that discuss it?
I thought the news from Morocco was now well known, see here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22114
Homo sapiens and some other form of human were living in the Levant 200,000 years ago:
https://www.earth.com/news/new-type-of-prehistoric-human-fou...
The reference to the skulls found on an island Greece, I'll need time to track that one down.
Very neat, turns a lot of previous evidence on its head.
Anyone to whom this is complete news? How did they manage this all without wheels?
Walking, and at least for the people in North America probably canoes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_European_modern_humans
This population in Belgium and Spain seems to have died out:
"Earlier EEMH (10 tested in total), on the other hand, did not seem to be ancestral to any present-day population, nor did they form any cohesive group in and of themselves, each representing either completely distinct genetic lineages, admixture between major lineages, or have highly divergent ancestry. Because of these, the study also concluded that, beginning roughly 37,000 years ago, EEMH descended from a single founder population and were reproductively isolated from the rest of the world. The study reported that an Aurignacian individual from Grottes de Goyet, Belgium, has more genetic affinities to the Magdalenian inhabitants of Cueva de El Mirón, Spain, than to more or less contemporaneous Eastern European Gravettians.[15]"
The population in Spain apparently had music, as this flute is dated to 40k years ago:
Hasn’t this been debunked by the discovery of Neanderthal and I think Denisovan DNA in contemporary human populations?
Regarding the older finds of Sapiens, when we find DNA traces and compare them to modern DNA, we are not able to find any modern population that is descended from any of this Sapien DNA, outside of Africa, that is older than even 25k.
It is well known that Sapiens arrived in Spain 40k years ago and that they demonstrated modern behavior: arts, music, advanced hunting tools, but DNA analysis suggests this group disappeared entirely, no trace of their DNA is found in existing European populations. The picture then is that 75k ago Eurasia was covered with humans, of at least 3 or 4 different species, and all of them died, and then Eurasia was repopulated by a burst of homo sapiens that radiated out from Africa.
Of course, this picture would change if we ever found some old DNA, outside of Africa, that could also be matched to DNA in a surviving group of humans.