The Sima de los Huesos hominins lived approximately 400,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene. © Kennis & Kennis, Madrid Scientific Films
Posted on 03/20/2016 2:54:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Previous analyses of the hominins from Sima de los Huesos in 2013 showed that their maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA was distantly related to Denisovans, extinct relatives of Neandertals in Asia. This was unexpected since their skeletal remains carry Neandertal-derived features. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have since worked on sequencing nuclear DNA from fossils from the cave, a challenging task as the extremely old DNA is degraded to very short fragments. The results now show that the Sima de los Huesos hominins were indeed early Neandertals. Neandertals may have acquired different mitochondrial genomes later, perhaps as the result of gene flow from Africa.
Until now it has been unclear how the 28 400,000-year-old individuals found at the Sima de los Huesos (“pit of bones”) site in Northern Spain were related to Neandertals and Denisovans who lived until about 40,000 years ago.
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The Sima de los Huesos hominins lived approximately 400,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene. © Kennis & Kennis, Madrid Scientific Films
I used to ride bikes with epic beard man, there, back in the 70s!
I am absolutely convinced that these guys genes put man on the moon in 69. These and the Denisovans to the east.
Notion that they were stupid is not true
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140430133054.htm
Seems that thew Pontic Steppe - Kazak Steppe and Mongolian Manchurian Grasslands were closed as the Neanderthals and Denisovians diverged.
Now I know where the 40% came from it’s that inbreeding thing.
Obama’s long lost cousins?
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Maybe neanderthals liked paella.
They probably invented it.
The deep steppes were unliveable until horses were domesticated and used to ride and haul necessary supplies into the interior.
Only on his mother’s side perhaps, genius.
And the same IQ
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