Showing posts with label ancestry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancestry. Show all posts

Monday, July 16, 2018

Humans Didn’t Evolve From a Single Ancestral Population -- Gizmodo

In the 1980s, scientists learned that all humans living today are descended from a woman, dubbed "Mitochondrial Eve," who lived in Africa between 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. This discovery, along with other evidence, suggested humans evolved from a single ancestral population—an interpretation that is not standing the test of time. ...
https://gizmodo.com/humans-didn-t-evolve-from-a-single-ancestral-population-1827483838

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Humans bred with this mysterious species more than once, new study shows - The Washington Post

We rarely portray Neanderthals, our close relatives, as telegenic. Museum exhibits give them wild tangles of hair, and Hollywood reduces them to grunting unsophisticates. Their skulls suggest broad faces, tiny chins and jutting brows. But to mock Neanderthals is to mock ourselves: Homo sapiens had lots of sex with Homo neanderthalensis. Neanderthal genes supply between 1 percent and 4 percent of the genome in people from homelands on several continents, from Britain to Japan to Colombia.....







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