Question

The pattern of genetic similarity and differences among human populations allows us to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our species. Label the lettered parts of your answer. A. What taxonomic group would include L1 + L2 + L3, but not Homo sapiens neaderthalensis? B. Where and when did that (L1 + L2 + L3) taxonomic group originate? C. Was there ever any interaction between (any part of the) taxonomic group you named above and Homo sapiens neaderthalensis; if so, what was the nature of that interaction? D. Drawing on the information in your answers to parts A, B, and C, and on patterns of current human genetic diversity, explain the sequence and timing of events that led to the present situation, with a single kind of hominin occupying the whole planet.

Answer 1