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  2. Archaic humans - Wikipedia

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    Archaic humans. Archaic humans[a] is a broad category denoting all species of the genus Homo that are not Homo sapiens (which are known as modern humans). Among the earliest modern human remains are those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco (about 315 ka), Florisbad in South Africa (259 ka), [1][2][3][4][5][6] Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) in southern Ethiopia ...

  3. Interbreeding between archaic and modern humans - Wikipedia

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    The introgression events into modern humans are estimated to have happened about 47,000–65,000 years ago with Neanderthals and about 44,000–54,000 years ago with Denisovans. Neanderthal-derived DNA has been found in the genomes of most or possibly all contemporary populations, varying noticeably by region.

  4. Hominid dispersals in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Hominid dispersals in Europe. Hominid dispersals in Europe refers to the colonisation of the European continent by various species of hominid, including hominins and archaic and modern humans. Short and repetitive migrations of archaic humans before 1 million years ago suggest that their residence in Europe was not permanent at the time. [1]

  5. Early human migrations - Wikipedia

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    Early human migrations are the earliest migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents. They are believed to have begun approximately 2 million years ago with the early expansions out of Africa by Homo erectus. This initial migration was followed by other archaic humans including H. heidelbergensis, which lived around ...

  6. Peopling of India - Wikipedia

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    The peopling of India refers to the migration of Homo sapiens into the Indian subcontinent. Anatomically modern humans settled India in multiple waves of early migrations, over tens of millennia. [1] The first migrants came with the Coastal Migration/Southern Dispersal 65,000 years ago, whereafter complex migrations within South and Southeast ...

  7. A tooth offers evidence modern humans reached Europe ... - AOL

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    A single tooth is changing how archaeologists think about the history of human evolution. The tooth, a molar, is one of the last remnants of the earliest modern humans found in Europe, according ...

  8. Homo - Wikipedia

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    Homo (from Latin homō '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.

  9. Neanderthal - Wikipedia

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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. [ 161 ] The southernmost find was recorded at Shuqba Cave , Levant; [ 162 ] reports of Neanderthals from the North African Jebel Irhoud [ 163 ] and Haua Fteah [ 164 ] have been reidentified as H. sapiens .