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The Neanderthals were the first human species to permanently occupy Europe as the continent was only sporadically occupied by earlier humans. [116] The southernmost find was recorded at Shuqba Cave, Levant; [117] reports of Neanderthals from the North African Jebel Irhoud [118] and Haua Fteah [119] have been reidentified as H. sapiens.
Those first modern humans that had interbred with Neanderthals and lived alongside them died out completely in Europe 40,000 years ago - but not before their offspring had spread further out into ...
The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a timeline of when that occurred and when ancient humans left Africa.
Conversely, significant rates of modern human gene flow into Neanderthals occurred—of the three examined lineages—for only the Altai Neanderthal (0.1–2.1%), suggesting that modern human gene flow into Neanderthals mainly took place after the separation of the Altai Neanderthals from the El Sidrón and Vindija Neanderthals that occurred ...
Homo (from Latin homÅ 'human') is a genus of great ape (family Hominidae) that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses only a single extant species, Homo sapiens (modern humans), along with a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans; these include Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.
Based on directly-dated Neanderthal remains, the date of Neanderthal extinction was between 40,870 and 40,457 years ago. Experts estimate that modern humans first appeared between 42,653 and ...
Human taxonomy is the classification ... now mostly considered part of ... There have been "taxonomic wars" over whether Neanderthals were a separate species since ...
Neanderthals were much more intelligent than previously thought and were skilled enough to control ... This cave is part of the Almonda karst system – a vast network of caves placed at different ...