Kahn Posted December 5, 2013 #1 Share Posted December 5, 2013 Thought this was interesting. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/400-000-year-old-human-dna-adds-new-tangle-our-2D11690925 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolguy Posted December 5, 2013 #2 Share Posted December 5, 2013 This is an awesome find 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Merton Posted December 5, 2013 #3 Share Posted December 5, 2013 This sort of thing is fascinating but not overwhelmingly hard to imagine. Human beings and their predecessors in Eurasia, homo erectus, did tend to get around, and you are talking here about hundreds of thousands of years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonardo Posted December 5, 2013 #4 Share Posted December 5, 2013 I read the same story (different article, however) on the BBC site - very interesting. I was pleasantly surprised at the caution both sites used when referring to the discovery, as media usually trumpets such things in a sensationalist fashion. Wouldn't it be fascinating to discover if Neanderthals displaced Denisovans in Europe? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pax Unum Posted December 10, 2013 #5 Share Posted December 10, 2013 This sort of thing is fascinating but not overwhelmingly hard to imagine. Human beings and their predecessors in Eurasia, homo erectus, did tend to get around, and you are talking here about hundreds of thousands of years. Well said, I agree it's fascinating but not surprising... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyche101 Posted December 10, 2013 #6 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) Wouldn't it be fascinating to discover if Neanderthals displaced Denisovans in Europe? I think the most exciting thing is that between this, and the DNA from the Denisovian finger bone, it seems we can expect another subspecies of Homo to join the lineage yet. I wonder who it will be! I am still all excited about meeting the Denisovian's. Edited December 10, 2013 by psyche101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maars Posted December 10, 2013 #7 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Just shows that we still have lot to investigate and understand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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