Interbreeding in early hominins

[wide eyed and legless]

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/interbreeding-among-early-hominins


Always thought Eric could have been a throw back

 

[TimT]

I tried to interbreed some homonyms once and the teacher said 'stop doing that with the dictionaries'.

 

[Bribie G]

Synonyms are more to my taste. However Antonyms make me want to go out and beat up Christians.

 

[TimT]

I made a synonym roll once. It was tasty, flavoursome, delicious, zesty, pungent, mouthwatering, toothsome.

 

[Donske]

I made a synonym roll once. It was tasty, flavoursome, delicious, zesty, pungent, mouthwatering, toothsome.

Haha, made me chuckle.

 

[Black Devil Dog]

I saw some early Hominins wearing blue during State of Origin..................well they sounded like early Hominins. h34r:

 

[Adr_0]

Hmm, this thread is starting to look hominous...

 

[Black Devil Dog]

I like Homminus dip.

 

[Greg.L]

Attitudes to previous human species show us a lot about racism, and how easy it is for us to perceive others as inferior. There is a view of these humans as hunched and hairy, little better than apes, when in fact they were people much like ourselves. The fact that they are now extinct, quite possibly wiped out by our species, means that there isn't anyone to defend them and it is easy to project our ideas of an inferior race on them. Scientists tend to classify these people by brain size, even though there is such a range of brain size in our own species and it isn't any indication of intelligence, it makes us feel better to be the ultimate expression of evolution.

We know so little about these people that is very hard to draw any conclusions at all, I think the denisovans are only known by a few finger bones. Some of our best information comes from fossilised trackways (footprints).

 

[GuyQLD]

This post needed more gladwrap.

 

[Weizguy]

Attitudes to previous human species show us a lot about racism, and how easy it is for us to perceive others as inferior. There is a view of these humans as hunched and hairy, little better than apes, when in fact they were people much like ourselves. The fact that they are now extinct, quite possibly wiped out by our species, means that there isn't anyone to defend them and it is easy to project our ideas of an inferior race on them. Scientists tend to classify these people by brain size, even though there is such a range of brain size in our own species and it isn't any indication of intelligence, it makes us feel better to be the ultimate expression of evolution.

We know so little about these people that is very hard to draw any conclusions at all, I think the denisovans are only known by a few finger bones. Some of our best information comes from fossilised trackways (footprints).

Right you may well be, but I get only two points from the article:

• **** sapiens will screw any species (take that as you will); and
• I'm not sure I can trust any article that uses the contemptible word(?) "gotten"

 

[Not For Horses]

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one with a severe hatred of 'gotten'. I refuse to call it a word.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Neanderthals, had the larger brain and larger bodies but different theories as to their extinction are, climate change mini ice age, interbreeding, and , either by being driven out of their habitat by **** sapiens, or conflict.

Gotten, just another American twist of the English language.

 

[Adr_0]

Oh thank goodness I'm not the only one with a severe hatred of 'gotten'. I refuse to call it a word.

your starting too sound like youve gotten you're knickers in a knot...

 

[pcmfisher]

Attitudes to previous human species show us a lot about racism, and how easy it is for us to perceive others as inferior. There is a view of these humans as hunched and hairy, little better than apes, when in fact they were people much like ourselves. The fact that they are now extinct, quite possibly wiped out by our species, means that there isn't anyone to defend them and it is easy to project our ideas of an inferior race on them. Scientists tend to classify these people by brain size, even though there is such a range of brain size in our own species and it isn't any indication of intelligence, it makes us feel better to be the ultimate expression of evolution.

We know so little about these people that is very hard to draw any conclusions at all, I think the denisovans are only known by a few finger bones. Some of our best information comes from fossilised trackways (footprints).

We are the ultimate expression of evolution.
So are all other living things living now.

 

[Bribie G]

We are the ultimate expression of evolution.
So are all other living things living now.

Exactly, there is a misconception that we are sitting at the top of some evolutionary tree like the fairy on the xmas tree - however whilst we may be among the latest additions to the tree, there's no superiority implied. Each of the latest "leaves" on the outside of the following diagram is equal to any other in terms of their adaptation to their environment. The way we are going, we are likely to be extinct only 200,000 years after our appearance as a separate species. **** Erectus had a 2 million year gig that puts us in the shade.

 

[TimT]

I just wrote this, thanks for the inspiration.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

I just wrote this, thanks for the inspiration.

Haha. I like your brain.

 

[surly]

Attitudes to previous human species show us a lot about racism, and how easy it is for us to perceive others as inferior. There is a view of these humans as hunched and hairy, little better than apes, when in fact they were people much like ourselves. The fact that they are now extinct, quite possibly wiped out by our species, means that there isn't anyone to defend them and it is easy to project our ideas of an inferior race on them. Scientists tend to classify these people by brain size, even though there is such a range of brain size in our own species and it isn't any indication of intelligence, it makes us feel better to be the ultimate expression of evolution.

We know so little about these people that is very hard to draw any conclusions at all, I think the denisovans are only known by a few finger bones. Some of our best information comes from fossilised trackways (footprints).

Levels of intelligence have been inferred from the the degree of tool complexity associated with the the remains of different species.
Sites with **** sapien remains showed associated tools of greater complexity than those from sites from an equivalent period of time associated with Neanderthal remains.
There were also archaeological sites where there were remains from both **** sapiens and Neanderthal found. In these sites there seemed to be an increas in the tool complexity when compared with a Neanderthal exclusive site. I vaguely recall that remains were discovered that blurred the lines between the two different species, suggesting the possibility of being the offspring of a mating between a sapiens and an neanderthal.

DISCLAIMER: This is half remembered from an archaeology subject I studied at uni 10 years ago.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

^ pretty much been confirmed now. I remember hearing about a grave site being found with the skeleton of a girl who seemed to be 1/2 neanderthal / **** sapiens. Also if you have European heritage something like 4% of your DNA is Neanderthal.