Did Neanderthals Interbreed with Humans?
Neanderthals and the French?
What does DNA sequencing show?
New data reveals that Neanderthals migrated through Eurasia, some fifty thousand years ago.
Although most human ancestors trace to Africa it’s estimated that 3% of us have Neanderthal genes.
In Non-African peoples
Dr. David Reich from the Department of Genetics Harvard Medical School, explains how human DNA shows that humans crossbred with Neanderthals some fifty thousands of years ago.
He says the new technology allows archaeological data can now track these, by
Sequencing Genomes.
That do to large scale migration throughout Eurasia, Europe allowed for two different species.
Two Different Species
The findings indicate that there were two different species alive back some 50 thousand years ago, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens interbreed with Neanderthals roughly 50 thousand years ago, when both species encountered each other they created offspring.
And he says that’s the fossils the genetic record shows a traces of both.
Thanks to new methods for gathering genomic data, archaeology, now has the proof.
They can now measure the amount of DNA in the fossil history of the mixture between the species.
So now they know that it’s not one species that does out and then the next new species comes along, but rather a combination of both species.
Only after 5000 years ago do we see modern looking humans. Dr. Reich, maintains that a mathematical sample show two sample contains European ancestry and one that contains near easterners.
The people of Europe are combination of farmers and hunter-gathers.
Then a new culture arrived called the Yalnia.
The newly-found remains also suggest an answer to the longstanding archaeological mystery of how the Aurignacian culture spread from Europe to sites in the Levant, say the researchers involved in the analysis of the teeth, which was published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
Cave discovered during Road Work
The Manot Cave was discovered by chance during construction work in 2008. Archaeological digs there over the last decade have uncovered a treasure trove or prehistoric finds, including a 55,000-year-old skull thought to belong to some of our earliest human ancestors out of Africa.
