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 ...

After migrating out of Africa, modern humans encountered and interbred with archaic humans, which was advantageous for modern humans in rapidly restoring HLA diversity and acquiring new HLA variants that are better adapted to local pathogens.

In 2010, evidence based on molecular biology was published, revealing unambiguous examples of interbreeding between archaic and modern humans during the Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic.

2024年12月12日 · For years, paleoanthropologists have grappled with the so-called “muddle in the Middle,” a term describing the confusion surrounding the classification of Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils. Many specimens were grouped into broad categories like “archaic Homo sapiens” or “Middle Pleistocene Homo.”

2020年2月12日 · Now a new study, published in Science Advances, suggests that early humans living inside Africa may also have interbred with archaic hominims. These are extinct species that are related to...

New research suggests at least some key distinctions date back earlier than previously estimated, hinting that modern and archaic humans – including our close, extinct relatives – have more in common than we ever thought.

2025年2月1日 · human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago.

2021年4月26日 · Starting with 14,042 genetic variants unique to modern humans, the researchers found 407 that specifically contribute to differences in gene expression between modern and archaic humans.

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.

See Human taxonomy for the question of taxonomic classification of early human varieties. Archaic Homo sapiens may refer to: early forms of anatomically modern humans; transitional forms of archaic humans possessing some of the derived traits of modern humans