Modern humans tried many times to settle in Europe before finally occupying the European continent, but they all failed.This is a clear conclusion drawn by scientists who have been studying the process of Homo sapiensof Run away Africa Tens of thousands of years ago.
Researchers have recently identified locations in Bulgaria, Romania, and the Czech Republic where the remains of our ancestors are between 40,000 and 50,000 years old. However, bone analysis has produced a genetic map that modern Europeans cannot match.
Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London said: “These early settlements seem to have been created by early modern human groups that did not survive to pass on their genes.” “They are the lost bloodlines of our species.
“The point is that the demise of these early modern human settlers meant Neanderthal Before Homo sapiens finally occupied the European continent, they still occupied Europe for thousands of years. “
Modern humans first appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago, and then slowly evolved across the African continent before entering West Asia about 60,000 years ago.Then our ancestors spread all over the world, until all other human species on the planet were extinct, including Denisovan East Asia and Flores, The “Hobbit” of Indonesia.
Neanderthals in Europe were one of the last human species to become extinct, going extinct about 39,000 years ago.However, recent research-outlined at a meeting of the European Society for Human Research evolution Earlier this year-the acquisition of the wise man was not simple. On several occasions, a group of early settlers lost their lives when they moved into the African continent.
In a study, international researchers re-examined parts of the skull and bones of a woman found in the Zlatý Kůň cave in the Czech Republic. Originally thought to be 15,000 years old, this new analysis suggests that it may be at least 45,000 years old, making her one of the oldest members of Homo sapiens found in Europe. However, the study also found that she has no genetic continuity with modern Europeans.
As one of the research team, Cosimo Posth of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the University of Tübingen in Germany, said: “This woman is not genetically contributing to today’s Europeans.”
Other locations where the remains of early modern humans from this period have been found include Peștera cu Oase in Romania and the Bacho Kiro cave in Bulgaria. Similarly, neither produced a genetic map that left important traces in Europe.
The discovery of these lost outposts of modern human expansion showed that Homo sapiens dispersed to Europe in pulses and raised key questions for scientists. In particular, why did modern people succeed in their later European advances, but failed in their early advances? After all, the impact of this success on our world is huge. Some scientists believe that environmental factors played a key role in the demise of the Neanderthals.Possible triggers include Earth’s magnetic pole reversal That happened about 42,000 years ago. Known as the Lachamp event, it may increase the cosmic radiation level of the entire Earth for centuries.
At the same time, the climate that affected the North Atlantic became colder, and a major volcanic eruption from the Campania volcano in central Italy. All these will put pressure on the population.
But some researchers questioned whether these events were devastating enough to cause the extinction of Neanderthals. They believed that they were equally challenging for modern people, but we survived.
Others have suggested that Homo sapiens is just better at using the landscape and hunting more effectively. Stringer supports this view. He believes that small changes in human behavior at this time may be enough to lead to a significant improvement in life. Men and women.
“I think the behavior of Homo sapiens is an important factor in our’success.’ Maybe we have built a better network or accumulated knowledge more efficiently, so we have a deeper understanding of how to extract resources than Neanderthals. Any small advantage is crucial. You only need to increase the survival rate of your baby by 1%, which is a huge advantage in the Stone Age world.”
However, there is another factor for modern mankind’s success in Europe. Genetic studies have shown that crosses between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals have occurred many times. As a result, the genomes of men and women of non-African descent now account for approximately 2% of Neanderthals. This number would be much higher 40,000 years ago.
“As the number of Homo sapiens increases and our spread in Europe becomes wider and wider, we are likely to’absorb’ some other species-especially Neanderthals-and no longer exist,” Stringer Say. “If the middle-aged Neanderthals enter the modern human breeding pool, whether voluntarily or by other means, these people will no longer contribute to the survival of their own species. The end result will be the direct extinction of the Neanderthals- Despite being a species, they still exist in the DNA of men and women today.”
