That makes sense. We probably would identify with people who were oppressed by the British Empire.
The Laschamp event and the demise of Neanderthals
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Notice how a major MAGAt complaint is that they are the ones being oppressed and, therefore seeking to destroy the US government even though Trump is taking over the US government with Congress in his pocket and ignoring the Judicial branch.
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How to tell if someone has Neanderthal DNA:
Seven good - and not-so-good - signs you may be a bit Neanderthal
Thick hair, good. Allergies, bad.
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Commercially available DNA analysis would probably be easier, lolHow to tell if someone has Neanderthal DNA:
Seven good - and not-so-good - signs you may be a bit Neanderthal
Thick hair, good. Allergies, bad.
To me, it's never really been adequately explained why Neanderthals disappeared so quickly. There were here for half a million years, and then fairly suddenly they are gone from the geologic record somewhere around 30k BCE.
There are obviously ideas and hypotheses about it.
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Rapid changes to the environment have caused more than a few species to become extent. The rise of Homo Sapiens is another factor. A multiplex of factors could be the answer even though I'm a big fan of Occam's Razor.
It is remarkable that for all the myriad of human subspecies that existed not that long ago and co-habitated the planet, homo sapiens were the sole survivor.
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Homo sapiens have a bad habit of killing off the competition....including other homo sapiens. LOL
Maybe, but I don't think homo sapiens were even in contact with Denisovans, Homo florensis, or Homo longi, and I don't think there is much evidence from Neanderthal remains that they died from violence
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It appears Denisovans interbred with both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens.
Denisovan - Wikipedia
Denisovans apparently interbred with modern humans, with a high percentage (roughly 5%) occurring in Melanesians, Aboriginal Australians, and Filipino Negritos. This distribution suggests that there were Denisovan populations across Asia. There is also evidence of interbreeding with the Altai Neanderthal population, with about 17% of the Denisovan genome from Denisova Cave deriving from them. A first-generation hybrid nicknamed "Denny" was discovered with a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother. Additionally, 4% of the Denisovan genome comes from an unknown archaic human species, which diverged from modern humans over one million years ago.
Oh yeah, that's right, you mentioned how Tibetans have some denisovsn dnaIt appears Denisovans interbred with both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens.
The first identification of a Denisovan individual occurred in 2010, based on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) extracted from a juvenile female finger bone excavated from the Siberian Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in 2008.[2] Nuclear DNA indicates close affinities with Neanderthals. The cave was also periodically inhabited by Neanderthals, but it is unclear whether Neanderthals and Denisovans ever cohabited in the cave. Additional specimens from Denisova Cave were subsequently identified, as was a single specimen from the Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau, and Cobra Cave in the Annamite Mountains of Laos. DNA evidence suggests they had dark skin, eyes, and hair, and had a Neanderthal-like build and facial features. However, they had larger molars which are reminiscent of Middle to Late Pleistocene archaic humans and australopithecines.Denisovan - Wikipedia
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Denisovans apparently interbred with modern humans, with a high percentage (roughly 5%) occurring in Melanesians, Aboriginal Australians, and Filipino Negritos. This distribution suggests that there were Denisovan populations across Asia. There is also evidence of interbreeding with the Altai Neanderthal population, with about 17% of the Denisovan genome from Denisova Cave deriving from them. A first-generation hybrid nicknamed "Denny" was discovered with a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother. Additionally, 4% of the Denisovan genome comes from an unknown archaic human species, which diverged from modern humans over one million years ago.
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It still doesn't explain their extinction nor the Neanderthals. Absorbtion could be part of it, but not wholly since there'd probably be more DNA if it was a complete absorption.
Right. I could understand one subspecies getting assimilated by Homo-sapiens.
But the fact that several contemporaneous subspecies of humans disappeared coincident with the rise of homo sapiens is curious.