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archaic Homo sapiens

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archaic Homo sapiens  (är-kk)
Relating to or being an early form or subspecies of Homo sapiens, anatomically distinct from modern humans. Neanderthals in Europe and Solo man in Asia are usually classed as archaic humans. Though archaic humans belong to the same species as modern humans, not all archaic groups or populations are necessarily ancestral to Homo sapiens sapiens. According to certain models of human evolution, modern humans replaced archaic populations throughout Asia and Europe after migrating out of Africa in comparatively recent times. In other models, widely separated but interbreeding archaic groups in different parts of the world evolved independently into today's physiologically distinct geographic populations.


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In fact, evidence suggests that modern humans evolved from archaic Homo sapiens independently in varied regions of mild environments, some warm and tropical, lasting thousands of years.
Modern man in potential: human evolution as viewed from a new ... by Lieber, Michael M. / Frontier Perspectives
Kennedy's findings support the theory that archaic Homo sapiens and anatomically modern humans evolved in several geographic regions, not just in Africa.
Human roots in India by Bower, Bruce / Science News
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