Photos of self-identified Negritos from across The Philippines. (Ophelia Persson)
Posted on 08/23/2021 9:44:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The mysterious Denisovans were only formally identified about a decade ago, when a single finger bone unearthed from a cave in Siberia clued scientists in to the ancient existence of a kind of archaic hominin we'd never before seen.
But that's only one side of the story. The truth is, modern humans had in fact already encountered Denisovans a long time before this. We crossed paths with them an eternity ago.
So far back, in fact, that we forgot about them entirely. Especially as they – and other archaic humans, such as the Neanderthals – faded into the unliving past, and Homo sapiens assumed sole human dominion over the world.
But even that's kind of debatable.
All of these hominin varieties had a tendency to interbreed with one another when they co-existed, which is why, in a manner of speaking, ancient humans still live on in our modern human DNA.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
An Indigenous people in the Philippines have the most Denisovan DNA
Indigenous Ayta Magbukon people get 5 percent of their DNA from the mysterious ancient hominids
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/indigenous-people-philippines-denisovan-dna-genetics
Really interesting stuff.
...the accepted theory today is that Philippine Negritos
are descendants of groups of Homo sapiens who migrated
into the Philippines during the Upper Pleistocene
from mainland Southeast Asia...
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https://www.everyculture.com/East-Southeast-Asia/Philippine-Negritos.html
I've got a little of it, probably just common stuff with the Neandertal DNA I carry.
Negritos sounds like a bag of snack food. ;^)
Thanks for posting this, it’s interesting and it’s a study I would probably not have discovered on my own. Thanks for keeping the level of conversation here, uplifting.
I think that the islands ringing the South China Sea helped Denisovans to have more chances to interbreed with humans before being wiped out by warfare or disease. The thousands of islands there were probably initially settled by humans in small groups and, as they spread across each island, there would be a new chance to meet and mingle before disease, warfare, and natural distrust could prevent further contacts like on the mainland. This may have led to the genetic evidence that we see in the Philippines.
Your thoughts?
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We seem to have split up as a species for a time, just long enough to develop some distinct features, and then merged back together.
Not quite sure what to make of this.
Thanks a bunch for those links, I’m sure that I will get to know them.
Cool. Thanks for posting.
Amazing how much stuff anthropologists can make up out of thin air from a couple of bones.
Fritos made from black corn, lol.
The missing Dennisovians.
I am a silly man
From one finger bone in a cave in Siberia. Why not?
Thank you.
If I was an ancient person, I’d want to be on an island, too, where I had less chance of becoming a lion’s happy meal.
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