CAS AN 102 Lecture Notes - Liang Bua, Southeast Asia, Mitochondrial Eve
24 Apr 2013
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There are a lot of leftover traits that are spaced out throughout the fossils: Divergent time was very short, but it"s still possible. Were neaderthals a separate biological species (that therefore couldn"t breed and thus assimilate) In europe there was a sharp speciation type break. In asia the timeline is less sharp, involving pushing back and forth occupation of the area. But early modern humans didn"t have those things either. It looks like the migrating humans interbreed with neanderthals as the humans moved out of africa (but afircans did not with neanderthals) This means that neanderthals were able to mate and were the same species. That means that they probably could talk as well and that there was no speciation event outside of. Fossils in the area are tiny, recent, found with stone tools, and with tinsy brains. But no record of h. traveling that far. Post cranial remains have weirdly long arms and short legs.
