Denisovan DNA in a Tibetan cave!
Perhaps the reason why Homo Sapiens spread beyond the realms of the other homos is because he interbred and thus acquired their useful adaptations to a variety of climates, over and above his ability to survive in higher altitudes of tropical Africa.
I presume that some of Denisovan man's features could be guessed at by looking at unusual features of Australian aboriginals. For example, the cartilage bridge in the nose
This is so amazing. I cannot get over how many years we have been taught a basic family tree of our ancient ancestors. Science again has brought to light amazing discoveries.
We are a mobile, and therefore heavily interbred, species. At different points, distinct variations left Africa and adapted to live elsewhere, but then later waves of emigrating humans intermingled.
The most surprising thing to me, is that East Africans are less similar in their genes to West Africans than they are to Europeans and Asians.
Posted by JoeBKite-like structures in the western Sahara Desert.
Posted by TriphidAn Aussie Indigenous Message Stick.
Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.
Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.
Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.
Posted by TriphidIndigenous Australian Aboriginal Rock art dated somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand years old.
Posted by JoeBDortoka vremiri: A new species of Dortokid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of the Hațeg Basin, Romania.
Posted by JoeBThe Cabeço da Amoreira burial: An Early Modern Era West African buried in a Mesolithic shell midden in Portugal.
Posted by JoeBMusivavis amabilis: A new species of Enantiornithine Bird from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeastern China.
Posted by JoeBTorosaurus in Canada.
Posted by JoeBStone tools from the Borselan Rock Shelter, in the Binalud Mountains of northeastern Iran.
Posted by JoeBDating the Lantian Biota.
Posted by JoeBBashanosaurus primitivus: A new species of Stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Chongqing Municipality, China.
Posted by JoeBDetermining the time of year when the Chicxulub Impactor fell.
Posted by JoeBSão Tomé and Príncipe: Possibly the last country on Earth never to have been visited by a working archaeologist.
Posted by JoeBMambawakale ruhuhu: A new species of Pseudosuchian Archosaur from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania.