Comments by "Karen Phinney" (@karphin1) on "Highly Compelling" channel.

  1. I’ve often thought the same! If we can interbreed, and produce viable offspring, wouldn’t that make us one species?
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  2. Tools made from limestone? Wouldn’t think they’d be hard enough.
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  3. Had my genome done, and I’m largely northern Germanic, but also have 1.5% Denisovan genes. This is from National geographic.
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  4.  @freefall9832 . Not true. They were quite sophisticated, making tools, clothing and some adornments. They were human like us but a bit different.
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  5. It would be fabulous if they could find more skeletal remains from this period.
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  6. Erectus is Latin for upright. You can’t be more than 13, spelling not good!
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  7. I’ve often thought the same thing! How can we base characterizing different species strictly on morphology? Given our own great variations today.
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  8. Sadly true!
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  9. Hahaha
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  10. Apparently noNeanderthals in Africa, when they were here in the Northern Hemisphere. The ancestors to Neanderthals spread out from Africa, perhaps 300,000 years ago, and our modern sapiens ancestors came later, and spread out throughout the Asian continent, and islands near to it, eventually reaching Australia. So, it isn’t JUST about the Northern Hemisphere.
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  11. Dimorphism in the genders, with Neanderthals.
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  12. I must say, while I’m intrigued with Denisovan and other archaic hominids, I could t care less in the games being advertised!
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  13.  @HighlyCompelling  But there are various life forms that share a genus name but are different species, quite varied and not necessarily derived from a recent form. Guess all the Homo genera may have evolved from a common ancestor, millions of years ago. So they don’t necessarily have to lead to us, sapiens.
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  14. The subtitles at the bottom of the screen, consistently add 100,000’s of years to the figure the presenter mentions, ie, “80,000 years becomes, 880,000 years”! Poor transcription of the presenter’s talk. 🧐. Otherwise, very interesting.
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  15. And “Dennis ovens”, not Denisovans, lol.
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  16. I also have 1.4 Neanderthal genes.
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  17.  @Ppurk  yup, Steve, I guess we are!
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