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Is the Homo erectus extinct?
Yes. All modern humans are Homo sapiens.
What are homo sapiens and neanderthals?
Homo sapiens are the species of modern humans, while Neanderthals are an extinct species of human that lived alongside Homo sapiens in Europe and Asia. Neanderthals were known for their robust build and large brains, and genetic evidence suggests that they interbred with early Homo sapiens.
Do Australian aborigines belong to the Neanderthal Homo sapiens or the homo sapiens sapiens?
Australian aborigines, like all modern human populations, belong to the Homo sapiens sapiens species. Neanderthals were a separate species of hominins that went extinct around 40,000 years ago.
Were all early humans one species?
No, there were many different prehuman species both at different times and living at the same time. Even as late as the last ice ages there were two different species of what could be called "modern humans" living at the same time: Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis and Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Finally the Homo Sapiens Neanderthalis went extinct, leaving only our species Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
How long did the homo meanderthals exist?
Homo neanderthalensis, commonly known as Neanderthals, existed from approximately 400,000 to 40,000 years ago. They coexisted with other ancient human species and eventually went extinct, possibly due to a combination of factors such as environmental changes and competition with Homo sapiens.
Which is correct interpretation of the scientific name Homo?
Homo sapiens is the species of bipedal primates to which modern humans belong. They are characterized by an average 85 cubic inch (1400 cc) brain capacity, dependence upon language, and creation and utilization of complex tools.
Describe the branch of direct ancestors to modern humans?
Modern humans can be traced back to both Anatomically modern Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens share all the same physical characteristics of humans evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago. Neanderthals also evolved 200,000 years ago but went extinct while AM Homo Sapiens lived on. Neanderthals share a great deal of characteristics with modern humans and anthropologist have suggested that Neanderthals and AM Homo Sapiens may have interbred.
What other hominid's existed at the same time as humans in ancient times?
Homo neanderthalensis, or more commonly known as Neanderthals, overlapped with Homo sapiens. This group of hominids, grouped under the genus Homo, did indeed live at the same time but in different parts of the world. The only hominid species which still exists today is H. sapiens, which are modern day humans. Neanderthals went extinct about 5,000 years after Homo sapiens reached Europe, the continent in which Neanderthals are thought to have gone extinct-during a cold period in Europe.
If dinosaurs died then how can humans be alive after the dinosaurs went extinct?
Because dinosaurs and humans never met. Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Humans (Homo Sapiens) are only 200,000 years old.
Why are homo-sapiens the dominant species on earth?
All other hominid species either went extinct due to outbreeding, competition for resources, or other conditions that led to the other hominid species not being selected for survival. Thus, only Homo sapiens sapiens exists.
Why are scientists so sure that mastodon and humans existed together?
Anthropologists and paleontologists are sure on this matter because Mastodons went extinct only during the Holocen epoch, about 10,000 to 11,000 BP (before present), when modern humans were very much alive, and living in the same areas.The American mastodon lived from Alaska to Florida and Mexico into the early Holocene, and was probabily hunted by the Paleo-Indians, a people that belonged not only to the Homo sapiens species, but also to the Homo sapiens sapiens subspecies.
Were Neanderthals a different species from modern humans?
Yes, Neanderthals were a distinct species from modern humans, known as Homo sapiens. They lived alongside each other in different regions of the world before Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago.
