Comments on: Confirmed: X-Women = Denisovans

By: Ragnar

Ragnar — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:09:51 +0000

One of the things I find really interesting from this – and other – discoveries is what it means to researchers. Do you know how many boxes of bones there are in the museums that have never been fully examined? Just imagine that a tooth in a box somewhere labelled as Neanderthal gets looked at again and turns out to not be from a Neanderthal.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:08:46 +0000

The hominin branch of the tree of life is looking positively bushy.

If the denisova dna interpretation requires that there were another species then how many other species were out there and nowhere near a cave in which it conveniently and almost beyond belief happens to get a fragment of its remains preserved in a cave occupied by other ancient lineages of humans?

No doubt there is yet more to be revealed as more and more remote corners of our ancestral ranges come to light.

By: sschaper

sschaper — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:13:17 +0000

i get nervous when people refer to human groups that our group interbred with as different species, when by definition they have to have been only different races. It sounds too much like old-style evolutionist ‘scientific racism’

By: red_pill_junkie

red_pill_junkie — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:49:32 +0000

Make that five members of the human family that coexisted at the same time –don’t forget Boskop man