- 2 days
Dogshit title tbh. Neanderthals were not ancestral to Homo sapiens, we both descended from H heidelbergensis (a particular clade of late H erectus). If they can’t even get that right, why are they writing science journalism for the Guardian?
- MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish22 hours
A phylogenic model depicts (from lower right) Homo erectus spreading from Africa to Eurasia around 1.8 millions of years ago. Its descendant H. heidelbergensis originated Denisovans, Neanderthals, and H. sapiens (humans) around 350,000 years ago.
2 daysI think it’s universally accepted that crossbreeding between the two was likely, that most if not all humans carry some small amount of Neanderthal DNA.
Here I am waiting for a root canal. Tooth pain sucks. Maybe it was a mercy killing.
I heard a rumour saying his brother was jealous and hit him with a goat jawbone. /joke
- cattywampas@lemmy.worldEnglish2 days
“But we lived for thousands of generations without fluoride and we were just fine.”
