GGG Ping.
Tolkien of course...................
he notes the chin and jaw are more reminiscent of pre-human fossils, dating back approximately two million years.
or, perhaps the assumption is false that the fossils to which he is comparing are not “pre-human”, but contemporary to all the other humans, including dear Florence here.
probably didn’t ever exist
We’ll find out in another decade
“Oops sorry about all that”
The authors propose several possible scenarios. For instance, Sima hominins could simply be close relatives of the Denisovans. But that would mean they lived right alongside Neanderthals without having close genetic ties to them.
The Sima hominins could also be a completely independent group that mingled with Denisovans, passing on their mitochondrial DNA, but it would be hard to explain why they also have Neanderthal features.
Another possibility, suggested by anthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, is that mitochondrial DNA from the Sima people reached the Denisovans thanks to interspecies sexual adventures among early humans, which introduced the DNA to both the Sima and Denisovans.
In other words, our genetics are mess, because our ancestors slept around, and all of their descendants are bastards.
As you know I think the out of Africa theory is BS.
I was looking at a Map of the Last Ice Age and wondered who was wandering around that Ice Free area extending from Anatola to China. What else is left to be found?
Bttt.
actually they were space aliens who got shipwrecked
Precious Ring
Yeah gholem is now Harry Waxman you didn’t know that blam LOL!
Isolated gene pool and limited resources with selection and drift combining in a modified Homo Erectus that requires less nourishment to survive, seems a good bet.