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Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by kingofthehill98 »

diddlybopshubop wrote: post #8
llm_nerd wrote: post #3

Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago? Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?

Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier. I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but it's only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there's been one extant human subspecies.

The craziest thing for me is that there's a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.

Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by danielbln »

kingofthehill98 wrote: post #11
diddlybopshubop wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier. I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but it's only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there's been one extant human subspecies.

The craziest thing for me is that there's a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.

Why is that crazy? Looking at human history, this doesn't come as much of a shock, does it?

Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by checkyoursudo »

danielbln wrote: post #12
kingofthehill98 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The craziest thing for me is that there's a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.

Why is that crazy? Looking at human history, this doesn't come as much of a shock, does it?

Humans do like to fuck.

Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by dyauspitr »

kingofthehill98 wrote: post #11
diddlybopshubop wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier. I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but it's only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there's been one extant human subspecies.

The craziest thing for me is that there's a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.

Interbred is putting it mildly. More like killed the men and raped all the women. This was repeated again with the Yamnaya from the Caucasus a few millennia ago where they again killed all the men and raped all the women.

Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by dyauspitr »

llm_nerd wrote: post #3

Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago? Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?

No the homo genus includes everything from something barely distinguishable from an gorilla all the way to modern humans.

Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by kbrannigan »

diddlybopshubop wrote: post #8
llm_nerd wrote: post #3

Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago? Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?

Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier. I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but it's only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there's been one extant human subspecies.

What if the literature of God Created men(mankind) in his image came to differentiate Homo sapiens from others.

Or the history really began once the other Humans were no more ?

Just passing thoughts

Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by gigachad69 »

kingofthehill98 wrote: post #11
diddlybopshubop wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier. I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but it's only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there's been one extant human subspecies.

The craziest thing for me is that there's a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.

a lot of evidence as in most europeans, eurasians and east asians have some percentage of neanderthal genes in their DNA

Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by im3w1l »

dyauspitr wrote: post #14
kingofthehill98 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The craziest thing for me is that there's a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.

Interbred is putting it mildly. More like killed the men and raped all the women. This was repeated again with the Yamnaya from the Caucasus a few millennia ago where they again killed all the men and raped all the women.

How certainly do we actually know that? If the evidence you claim is that there are no Y-chromosomes from other hominids, an alternative explanation could be that hybrids with Y-chromosomes from other hominids did exist, but disappeared gradually over the centuries/millenia either because they were less fit or through pure chance.

Are there any now living people with mt-dna from other hominids?

Having a minority non-autosomal genotype could be an issue as there might be recurring "compatibility problems", given that the autosomal dna would mainly evolve to work with the majority mtdna and ydna.

Re: Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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Post by Gerardo1 »

kbrannigan wrote: post #16
diddlybopshubop wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier. I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but it's only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there's been one extant human subspecies.

What if the literature of God Created men(mankind) in his image came to differentiate Homo sapiens from others. Or the history really began once the other Humans were no more ? Just passing thoughts

There are at least several thousand years between the last non-modern human hominids dying out and the first writing emerging.
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