2025年1月23日 · Multiregional evolution holds that the human species first arose around two million years ago and subsequent human evolution has been within a single, continuous human species. This species encompasses all archaic human forms such as Homo erectus , Denisovans , and Neanderthals as well as modern forms, and evolved worldwide to the diverse ...

2024年12月2日 · Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based partly on a very large skull found in China.

2024年10月4日 · In this talk, I will focus on identifying regions where archaic ancestry could have been a useful source of standing genetic variation as modern human populations adapted to new environments. We pinpoint a gene MUC19, for which modern humans carry an archaic haplotype, which harbors a high density of Denisovan-specific variants, including nine ...

2025年1月9日 · Acheulean tool-using archaic humans may have dwelled throughout West Africa since at least between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP (Middle Pleistocene). [ 3 ] At Ounjougou , in Mali, a yet-to-be-dated Lower Paleolithic economy (e.g., pebble cores, pebble tools, polyhedrons, spheroids , sub-spheroids), with unpreserved Acheulean implements (e.g ...

2024年2月29日 · Although admixture between both Neanderthals and Denisovans has contributed a small percentage of ancestry to modern human genomes outside of Africa, these extinct human groups, which in this article we collectively call “archaic humans,” represent separate ancestral lineages.

2024年12月6日 · Homo juluensis -- a newly-erected human species that includes enigmatic Denisovans and several hominin fossils from Tibet, Taiwan and Laos -- lived in eastern Asia from around 300,000 years ago to 50,000 years ago.

2024年1月3日 · German scientist Otto Schoentensack was the first to describe the specimen and proposed the species name Homo heidelbergensis. Before the naming of this species, scientists referred to early human fossils showing traits similar to both Homo erectus and modern humans as ‘archaic’ Homo sapiens.

2024年8月6日 · Archaic humans is a broad category denoting all species of the genus Homo that are not Homo sapiens. Among the earliest modern human remains are those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, Florisbad in South Africa (259 ka), and Omo-Kibish I in southern Ethiopia.

2024年6月11日 · Ancient DNA from archaic hominins has revealed a rich history of admixture between early modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans, and has allowed us to disentangle complex selective processes. Information from aDNA studies is nowhere near saturation, and we believe that future aDNA sequences will continue to change our …

2024年10月18日 · The Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program explores the universal human story at its broadest time scale. Smithsonian anthropologists research many aspects of human evolution around the globe, investigating fundamental questions about our evolutionary past, including the roots of human adaptability.