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Sapiens
Part of 3/26

and Asia.
It wasn’t until 300 000 years ago that modern humans Homo sapiens first appeared. This new species of human were not particularly special. Sure they had large brains walked upright used tools and were highly social but so did the other species of human. For example Neanderthals hunted large game and used fire long before the emergence of Homo sapiens .
And yet despite there being nothing particularly special about Homo sapiens they prospered and overspread the globe; all the other human species died out. Why?
There are two theories to explain this: The Interbreeding Theory suggests that Homo sapiens began mating with the other species of humans – most notably Homo neanderthalensis – and that that resulted in the species’ gradually merging together. There is evidence to back this theory up: the DNA of modern Europeans contains between 1 and 4 percent of Neanderthal DNA as well as some DNA from other earlier human species.
The Replacement Theory on the other hand suggests