Did Homo erectus, Homo sapiens and Neanderthals coexist?

Reporting their work in Nature, Castellano and his team propose that around 100,000 years ago, her ancestors — a small population of Neanderthals migrating from Europe to Asia — encountered a very early wave of Homo sapiens leaving Africa. The identity of these early modern humans is a mystery. read more

Similarly, Homo sapiens developed from those Homo erectus members who migrated to warm tropical continents). Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had existed parallel in two different environments and met each other at a later period when the climatic conditions were congenial more so for Homo sapiens, when warm interglacial period prevailed. read more

Homo sapiens lived from about 200,000 years ago to the present. Thus from about 200,000 years ago until 30,000 years ago all three species of humans were alive. However, the three species were mostly found in different continents - Homo sapiens in Africa, Neanderthals in Europe and Homo erectus in Asia. read more