Could There Have Been Human Families Where Parents Came from Different Populations: Denisovans, Neanderthals or Sapiens?
No later than ~500kya the population of Homo sapiens split into three lin-eages of independently evolving human populations: Sapiens, Neanderthals and Den-isovans. After several hundred thousands years, they met several times and interbred with low frequency. Evidence of coupling between them is fou...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Navarra |
| Repositorio: | Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/62516 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/62516 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Neanderthals Denisovans Homo sapiens interbreeding gene flow ensoulment |
| Sumario: | No later than ~500kya the population of Homo sapiens split into three lin-eages of independently evolving human populations: Sapiens, Neanderthals and Den-isovans. After several hundred thousands years, they met several times and interbred with low frequency. Evidence of coupling between them is found in fossil records of Neanderthal – Sapiens offspring (Oase 1) and Neanderthal – Denisovans (Denisova 11)offspring. Moreover, the analysis of ancient and present-day population DNA shows that there were several significant gene flows between populations. Many introgressed sequences from Denisovans and Neanderthals were identified in genomes of currently living populations. All these data, according to biological species definition, may in-dicate that populations of H. sapiens sapiens and two extinct populations H. sapiens neanderthalensis and H. sapiens denisovensis are one species. Ontological transitions from pre-human beings to humans might have happened before the initial splitting of the Homo sapiens population or after the splitting during evolution of H. sapiens sapiens lineage in Africa. If the ensoulment of the first homo occurred in the evolving populations of H. sapiens sapiens, then occasionally mixed couples (Neanderthals – Sa-piens or Denisovans – Sapiens) created relations that functioned as a family, in which children could have matured. |
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