ANT-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Taxonomy, Homo Erectus, Gene Flow
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Include neanderthals as human, part of our species. People look different but it doesn"t reflect the species . Genetic bottleneck, some indication that there was large diversity, then some form of small diversity. Supports idea that small subsaharan population gave rise to our species 2 million years ago. Maintains that early anatomically modern humans arose, speciation event in africa. Those hominins came and totally replaced the homo erectus. No interbreeding with neanderthals -- that is why it gets criticism, people still have neand genes. Population from sub saharan africa high levels of genetic variation indicating they were around longer. Okay there was some interbreeding but it was in the range of 1-6 percent. Does not discard breeding with neanderthals, just. La chapelle-aux-saints, cave site near the village of la chapelle-aux- saints in central francewhere the bones of an adult neanderthal male were found in 1908. Studies of the remains published in 1911 13 by french anthropologist marcellin.
