Sunday, April 6, 2025

Chris Stringer: Neanderthals diverged from archaic humans >800,000 years ago yet we still interbred 750k yrs later!

 

 Huxley Lecture 2023 - Prof Chris Stringer

 

 DNA study recently published supports Chris Stringer's claim - the Least Common Ancestor of Neanderthals/Denisovans/Humans is 1 million years ago. Indeed there were two main lineages of "homo" hominins in Africa at 1.5 million years ago. One become Neanderthal/Denisovan/Sapiens. The other did not survive so is considered a "ghost archaic" homo lineage.

 Early Homo Sapiens (900,000 years ago) have a brain case more like Neanderthal/Denisovans and less "globular" like Sapiens after 125,000 years. Because of the interbreeding with Neanderthals/Denisovans and "archaic" ghost homo sapiens - we "modern" homo sapiens are only >90% "modern" homo sapiens.

 

 

 3d animation of evolution of humans from primates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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