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  2. Oldest human DNA reveals lost branch of the human family tree

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    Over this 7,000-year time frame, early humans encountered Neanderthals, had sex and gave birth to children on a fairly regular basis. The height of the activity was 47,000 years ago, the study ...

  3. 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.

  4. Neanderthal - Wikipedia

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    Skullcap of Neanderthal 1, the type specimen, at the Musée de l'Homme, Paris Ernst Haeckel's Primate family tree showing H. stupidus (Neanderthal) as the ancestor to H. sapiens [1] The first Neanderthal remains—Engis 2 (a skull)—were discovered in 1829 by Dutch/Belgian prehistorian Philippe-Charles Schmerling in the Grottes d'Engis, Belgium.

  5. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Homo antecessor may be a common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] At present estimate, humans have approximately 20,000–25,000 genes and share 99% of their DNA with the now extinct Neanderthal [ 42 ] and 95–99% of their DNA with their closest living evolutionary relative, the chimpanzees .

  6. When did Neanderthals interbreed with ancient humans ... - AOL

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    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.

  7. Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. Neanderthal genetics - Wikipedia

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    Among the genes shown to differ between present-day humans and Neanderthals were RPTN, SPAG17, CAN15, TTF1, and PCD16. [13] A visualisation map of the reference modern-human containing the genome regions with high degree of similarity or with novelty according to a Neanderthal of 50 ka [8] has been built by Pratas et al. [22]

  9. Research sheds light on modern humans and Neanderthals co ...

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    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 ...