Yes. Neanderthals and Denisovans were both much larger, stronger, and technically advanced than Paleolithic Homo Sapiens. They used chemistry, made art and jewelry, buried their dead, practiced spirituality, and domesticated canines long before we did. They even cold hammered gold beads 20,000 years before homo sapiens. They also had larger brains.
We seemed to have survived because we were the most fruitful, and seem to have been the one species that could successfully breed with all the others. There are no populations of homo sapiens living today who don’t have some kind of archaic presence in their DNA. That is because just like Neanderthals and Denisovans, pure homo sapiens went extinct.
We survivors are hybrids of at least 8 different species of homo. We`are also hybrids of several different subspecies of homo sapiens. From 300,000 to 150,000 years ago, many different populations of homo sapiens lived from East Africa to Northern India, but even many of those considered Anatomically Modern are as different from one another as we are from Neanderthals. None had chins, for instance. Size and body proportions show much greater diversity between populations than today.
The great majority of our modern genome seems to have been assimilated by a wave of homo sapiens with a large amount of Neanderthal and what scientists call a "ghost" population of homo sapiens.
It's sort of a sister group, with various sub-populations such as Paleo East African, Paleo Siberian, etc.
The only people with no trace of Neanderthal seem to be a few populations in the inner deserts and rainforests of Africa. But they too have several types of archaic introgression, perhaps equating to a kind of subtropical Neanderthal.
However, they too show signs of sexual exchange with the aforementioned "ghost" population of homo sapiens. Their mitochondrial DNA shows up as an erroneous insertion on a chromosome 11 on some people of every population in the world.
The first analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of Australia's 60,000 year old Mungo Man happened to look like a descendant of this introgressed DNA strain.
Mungo Man may have been a woman, and stood 6'6.
The great majority of our modern genome seems to have been assimilated by a wave of homo sapiens with a large amount of Neanderthal and what scientists call a "ghost" population of homo sapiens.
It's sort of a sister group, with various sub-populations such as Paleo East African, Paleo Siberian, etc.
The only people with no trace of Neanderthal seem to be a few populations in the inner deserts and rainforests of Africa. But they too have several types of archaic introgression, perhaps equating to a kind of subtropical Neanderthal.
However, they too show signs of sexual exchange with the aforementioned "ghost" population of homo sapiens. Their mitochondrial DNA shows up as an erroneous insertion on a chromosome 11 on some people of every population in the world.
The first analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of Australia's 60,000 year old Mungo Man happened to look like a descendant of this introgressed DNA strain.
Mungo Man may have been a woman, and stood 6'6.
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