Neo-neander ping.
“This relative roamed far from the cave that holds its only known remains. “
I have relatives like that too. We call them retired - always bringing back trinkets, etc.
Maybe these were the first wookie’s tribe.....
I’ve read that the Chinese have always claimed to be separate from the humans that supposed emigrated out of Africa. Maybe this discovery backs that up.
amazing how intelligent people can be so stupid - or expect all of us to be
No signs of the Great Ice Ship remains, that brought my ancestors here?
It is counterintuitive that all kinds of human relatives roamed Asia and Europe but we are 100% out of Africa starting some 40,000 years back. Hopefully the many origins folks are right and things we get even more complex. :)
Neanderthal DNA is generally described as about halfway between ours and that of a chimpanzee. They might be related to us via similar design, but they are not related to us via any evolutionary process.