Sentence examples for archaic population from inspiring English sources

Their ideas are still stale, still oppressive, still unimpressive and appeal to only a fraction of the population -- an archaic population that is slowly dying off.

Nonetheless, the haplotype genealogy and TMRCAs we obtained are not consistent with neutral evolution in an unstructured population but rather suggest the action of balancing selection and/or a possible contribution of archaic population structure in Asia.

In all archaic populations, facial massiveness and the size of premolars and molars were diminishing.

This evidence suggested that genetic exchange between morphologically divergent populations may have been a common feature of human evolution, and the multiregional model of human origins which posited that discrete archaic populations of Homo evolved locally in Africa, Asia, and Europe and contributed genes to modern Homo sapiens thus gained significant genetic support in 2011.

Ancient DNA from these other archaic populations may be required to conclusively answer this question.

Identifying and quantifying rates of admixture between colonizing modern humans and resident archaic populations is also of considerable interest.

However, the possibility of some gene flow between migrating early modern humans and local archaic populations remains plausible (compare Stringer and McKie 1996 and Wolpoff and Caspari 1998, also see Relethford 2003 for a geneticist's perspective).

We clearly trace most of our ancestry through a population that lived in Africa between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago and the archaic populations outside of Africa contributed little if any to present day diversity.

The fact that this pattern of admixture was not anticipated by any surveys of extant genetic diversity suggests the possibility of small amounts of admixture from other archaic populations such as H. erectus in East Asia.

As a result, Melanesians now carry DNA from both encounters with Neandertals and Denisovans, which means that as much as 8% of their DNA comes from archaic populations, says Reich.

Fig. 3 Alternative models of modern human origins: a) modern humans evolve in Africa and replace archaic forms around the world, b) archaic populations around the world maintain gene flow and evolve towards the modern form multiregionally. Anthropological genetics have made great contributions towards resolving this debate.