The little Floresians not only survived long into the modern period but unlike most of the other archaic human populations managed to coexist with modern humans.
They were mixed by the archaic populations adopting some cultural elements and physical features.
In the case of the Microcephalin D allele, evidence for rapid recent expansion indicated introgression from an archaic population.
Since laurel forests are archaic populations that diversified as a result of isolation on islands and tropical mountains, their presence is a key to dating climatic history.
Modern humans have some genes that originally arose in archaic human populations, composing perhaps 5% of our genetic inheritance.
But that leaves the converse question-whether Africans interbred with some of the archaic populations that were presumably present there-difficult to answer.
Recent DNA analysis also indicates African admixture with a now extinct archaic population.
The nutritional diversity of this archaic human population was rather extraordinary.
Got stuff published about genetics in archaic populations.
The immune system's HLA alleles have drawn particular attention in the attempt to identify genes that may derive from archaic human populations.
