![]() ![]() The actual Denisovan specimens in Siberia were 30-50,000 years old, and the type predated both modern humans and Neanderthals. The team declined at this stage to give the find a Linnean species name, but, by analogy with the Neanderthals, named it Denisovan after the location. And in December last year the same team produced a total surprise: a genomic analysis of human remains from a cave in Denisova, southern Siberia, which proved to be genetically distinct from all known human types. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Hardcover Condition: Very Good US 6.24 Convert currency US 3.49 Shipping Within U.S.A. Last year, the Neanderthal Genome Project, led by the Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo, finally established that modern humans in Europe and Asia (but not Africa) have some admixture of Neanderthal genes, thus ending decades of speculation. The Complete World of Human Evolution Peter Andrews, Chris Stringer Published by Thames & Hudson, 2005 ISBN 10: 0500051321 ISBN 13: 9780500051320 Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, U.S.A. But while Out-of-Africa still holds sway, the picture is losing some of its classical simplicity. Stringer has been a strong advocate of the dominant Out-of-Africa theory that modern humans emerged from that continent and entirely replaced earlier human types such as Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and the Neanderthals. ![]()
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