LONDON (AFP) – The first modern humans in Europe had a Neanderthal ancestor might have lived “four or six generations “before, according to a publication of the British magazine Nature.
This conclusion came after the Medical School of Harvard University, in the United States, analyze the jaws of a human remains found in the cave Petera cu Oase in southwestern Romania and comparing the Neanderthal.
The research refers to both species coincided in time, causing it to cross sooner than it was believed until now.
Human beings spread across the European continent makes between 45,000 to 35,000 years, while the Neanderthals became extinct. However, research shows that early modern humans in Europe retain 3% of the DNA of its predecessors.
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For the study the genetic information used a group of cranial fragments identified as Oase 1, which has a jaw dated between 37,000 and 42.000 years. These remains have entr 6 and 9.4% Neanderthal DNA, more than any other human remains analyzed to date.
In addition, it was determined that, from the genetic point of view, Oase 1 has more similarities with humans in East Asia and the natives of the Americas with the current European.
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Kaynak: human, Neanderthals, Europe, Romania, Africa, America, paleontology
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