Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Bombshell Revelation: Scientists Just Discovered Denisovan DNA in Iceland" video.

  1. We haven't found cave art from Neaderthals, but they did have sophisticated tools, jewellery etc. Also cooking probably came with the earlier Homininae; Home erectus, and is common to both species The last statements about Neaderthals, i kind of don't agree with. To make sophisticated tools (like Neaderthals did), you need shared language and a culture. Same with ceremonial burial and clothing, which the Neaderthals were adept at. The xenophobic concept of not admixing genes doesn't quite make sense either, as Neanderthal and Denisovan genes probably exist in many modern Americo-Eurasian human genes populations (but not in sub-Saharan African peoples). But Denisovans were probably genetically close enough to Neaderthals to interbreed sucessfully with fertile offspring, or were the same species, This "extinction" of Neanderthals is ominious, simply because it may herald the extinction of our own species, but in our case from climate change or ourselves, not being overwhemed by Homo sapiens originating from another continent (Africa) like the Neanderthals seemingly were. The exinction of Neanderthals c. 40,000 BP might also help to date the "out of Africa" theory for many modern humans, c. 50,000 to 70,000 B.P. which is not long enough to allow speciation to occur amongst the newcomers going to different islands and continents. As a primate, Homo Sapiens pre c. 1500AD was one of the most widespread mammals on Earth. Humans only finally set foot on Antarctica by the late nineteenth century (probably Norwegian sealers).
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