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https://www.history.com/news/denisovans-interbreeding-discovery
Ancient humans bread with Denisovians twice.
Ancient humans bread with Denisovians twice.
Except the Inuits who got a pretty dark skin even though they have lived in the northern region for at least 20-30 thousand years, perhaps even before migrating to North America.I'm no expert. It's just a theory I've read. Actually Chinese are mostly light skinned; their chief concession to the Sun is the extra fold in the eyes that give them a slightly slanted expression. In the deep past people were less likely to move over large areas. But as we all know, they did occasionly migrate to new areas. Skin color is primarily an adaptation to the Sun Vitamin D. Lighter skinned [people take in vitamin D more easily than dark skinned people. In the tropics the dark skin protected people from the intense Sun, but still gleaned vitamin D from it. In the extreme north skin became light to better facilitate the obsorbiing of vitamin D.
https://www.history.com/news/denisovans-interbreeding-discovery
Ancient humans bread with Denisovians twice.
DOH! The comic side effects of dyslexia (and i had to double check on how to spell dyslexia).Glad to hear they broke bread together.
DOH! The comic side effects of dyslexia (and i had to double check on how to spell dyslexia).
Perhaps a nice romantic candlelit dinner.
It was probably more primal than that.I have to admit that in my response I first spelled hear as here and had to edit it.
Be nice to think of both species (?) sitting down to enjoy a meal together.
This is the reason Inuits have dark skin. They get their vitamin D through fish and don't need to change their skin tone to create vitamin D through sun light.Vardoger: Hey, it's a theory. I didn't claim it to be gospel, Give em another 30,000 years and see if it changes their complexion.
Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago
Naturevolume 557, pages233–237 (2018)
Abstract
Over 60 years ago, stone tools and remains of megafauna were discovered on the Southeast Asian islands of Flores, Sulawesi and Luzon, and a Middle Pleistocene colonization by Homo erectus was initially proposed to have occurred on these islands1,2,3,4. However, until the discovery of Homo floresiensis in 2003, claims of the presence of archaic hominins on Wallacean islands were hypothetical owing to the absence of in situ fossils and/or stone artefacts that were excavated from well-documented stratigraphic contexts, or because secure numerical dating methods of these sites were lacking. As a consequence, these claims were generally treated with scepticism5. Here we describe the results of recent excavations at Kalinga in the Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon in the Philippines that have yielded 57 stone tools associated with an almost-complete disarticulated skeleton of Rhinoceros philippinensis, which shows clear signs of butchery, together with other fossil fauna remains attributed to stegodon, Philippine brown deer, freshwater turtle and monitor lizard. All finds originate from a clay-rich bone bed that was dated to between 777 and 631 thousand years ago using electron-spin resonance methods that were applied to tooth enamel and fluvial quartz. This evidence pushes back the proven period of colonization6 of the Philippines by hundreds of thousands of years, and furthermore suggests that early overseas dispersal in Island South East Asia by premodern hominins took place several times during the Early and Middle Pleistocene stages1,2,3,4. The Philippines therefore may have had a central role in southward movements into Wallacea, not only of Pleistocene megafauna7, but also of archaic hominins.
The only idea that comes to mind is their connection to that land, both spiritual,and ancestral prevented them from leaving.
Yes. Hostile tribes and modern humans chased them up there.maybe people further south wouldn't let them?
Yes. Hostile tribes and modern humans chased them up there.
Might explain the troll legends of Nordic countries - people encountered relict hominids and turned the tales into legends.
In America, many native tribes ended up in the North.
In cold climates, mammals grow larger, to conserve heat; any hunter that can kill an elk, or a mammoth, or a grey seal, would have enough meat to feed a small group of friends and relatives. Also fish are surprisingly abundant in colder waters, partly because the cold water can support a greater oxygen load. The curious and inspiring aspect is that humans did not evolve in cold climates; they have adapted by inventing clothes and shoes, and the use of fire.
Why would they live at that Latitude, and How could they live at that latitude ...
Perhaps it was not as cold when they lived there as it is today?
There are beliefs that the earth's axis has not always been fixed on it's current tilt...plus there are the "mini ice age" theories.
Yes, but this seems to be people similar to what we have today. Not a sub-species like the denisovans or so.
Yet another "Mystery hominin".
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ith-ancestors-of-neanderthals-and-denisovans/
As ever, I remain convinced there are hundreds of yet to be discovered branches on the family tree, and indeed other family trees.