10/21/2024
Only 200,000 years ago, our ancestors lived on a planet teeming with varied human relatives: Neandertals lived in Europe and the Middle East. Denisovans, known today only from bone fragments, teeth and DNA, dwelled across Asia and perhaps even in the Pacific. “Hobbits,” or Homo floresiensis, a diminutive species, lived in Indonesia, as another short-statured species, called Homo luzonensis, did in the Philippines. Even Homo erectus, the grandparent of early human species, was still running around as recently as 112,000 years ago.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-origins-look-ever-more-tangled-with-gene-and-fossil-discoveries/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwY2xjawF6bNVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXkgafEJcfOAUWE87GOHOpGXNOD-n1WkFfogiWEZKs4TyR_G287GJtrTBA_aem_cITHE0B76ETAZ7eiMw5Apg
Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals
