The human lineage of Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. Scientists are still figuring out when all this inter-group mating took place. Modern humans may have mated with Neanderthals after migrating out of Africa and into Europe and Asia around 70, years ago.
Apparently, this was no one-night stand — research suggests there were multiple encounters between Neanderthals and modern humans. Less is known about the Denisovans and their movements, but research suggests modern humans mated with them in Asia and Australia between 50, and 15, years ago. But in January , a paper in Cell upended that narrative by reporting that modern populations across Africa also carry a significant amount of Neanderthal DNA. Researchers suggest this could be the result of modern humans migrating back into Africa over the past 20, years after mating with Neanderthals in Europe and Asia.
Sorensen , a postdoctoral researcher in archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Human groups that encountered each other probably swapped more than just genes, too. Neanderthals living in modern-day France roughly 50, years ago knew how to start a fire , according to a Nature paper on which Sorensen was the lead author. Finding the evidence is challenging as remains of the oldest Homo sapiens — our distant ancestors that are believed to have split off from Neanderthals some , years ago — are scarce.
Most have been found in Eastern Africa. In a skull dug up near a village in Eastern Ethiopia was dated back to some , years ago. Its anatomical features — a relatively large brain, thin-walled skull and flat forehead — made it the oldest modern human ever discovered. Two years later, its title was stolen by a pair of partial skulls discovered in Omo-Kibish, another Ethiopian dig site.
The Omo-Kibish finds pushed back the story of modern humans another 35, years and was more evidence pointing to Eastern Africa as the cradle of humankind. The abundance of evidence there led anthropologists, geneticists and paleontologists to believe it was where modern humans began their journey. But multiple discoveries in recent years challenge this notion. In , paleontologist Jean-Jacques Hublin made a discovery that reframed the story of humankind. Since the s, Hublin had studied peculiar fossils found in a cave in a desolate, mountainous region of Morocco in far-north Africa.
The remains showed flat faces that looked remarkably like us — more so than our Neanderthal cousins. Their enlarged lower jaws and teeth along with elongated brain cases suggested they were of a primitive species that lived some , — , years ago. This age did not fit the pattern of previous discoveries, or the prevailing visions of how our story began.
As the oldest find at Omo-Kibosh was in Eastern Africa, where modern humans were believed to have began, it did not make sense for another human from the same time period to be dug up on another side of the continent. It led us to completely reconsider the [story] of the evolution of our species. It is believed the human species split off from their oldest living ancestors, apes, around 6 million years ago to form H.
Modern humans then split from Neanderthals around , to , years ago. And 40, years ago, we began spreading from Africa to the rest of the globe. But the true origin of modern humans is bitterly contentious. In a group of researchers led by Vanessa Hayes, a geneticist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the University of Sydney in Australia, came up with an answer. For example : 0. Masses : 1, g in 1 kg; 1, kg in 1 tonne. For example : tonne mass of a blue whale; million tonnes of global human biomass.
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