![]() ![]() This contextualisation indicates that - to some extent - an assimilation model is the best fit for the “extinction” of Late Pleistocene hominin species. ![]() Genetic data allows mapping of the date, location and frequency of admixture events. infertility), which is likely a reason why there is not a greater number of archaic lineages present in modern DNA. However, interbreeding also had some detrimental impacts on modern humans (e.g. This can be explained through positive selective pressure, indicating that interbreeding was often adaptive. Introgressed haplotypes of archaic origin are located within many coding sections of DNA, some at curiously high frequencies within certain populations. ![]() Additionally, Melanesians, share archaic haplotypes with Neanderthals but also Denisovans and an unknown group, “Species X”, whilst African populations share many with an archaic group of H. Findings show that modern humans of Eurasian origin share DNA with Neanderthals. Through morphological and palaeo-genomic analysis, four archaic hominins have been proven to have interbred with modern humans. Many species co-existed with Homo sapiens in the Late Pleistocene. ![]()
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