Homo erectus—the direct ancestor of modern humans ... Of course, evidence of hominin fraternization exists in our DNA, as many people of European and Asian descent carry at least one to two ...
Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...
while Australians may have descended from the Homo erectus population in South East Asia. Both theories have their staunch defenders who cite DNA evidence - analysis of the genetic blueprint ...
The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor ...
It was proposed that the new species include the enigmatic Denisovans, a population known primarily through DNA evidence from ... easily be assigned to Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis or ...
We used similar casts that had been made of three individuals from our ancient ancestors, a Neanderthal, a Homo Erectus and a member ... how much Neanderthal DNA was present in the genes of ...