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The Western centric view of world history strikes again. The article is talking about Denisovans and last I checked, Denisova Cave wasn’t in Northern Europe.
by bitxbitxbitcoin 3y ago
The Western centric view of world history strikes again. The article is talking about Denisovans and last I checked, Denisova Cave wasn’t in Northern Europe.
- Podgajski 3y agoYeah, I’m sorry I was over generalizing and I was being Eurocentric for a reason. But the Denisovans and the Neanderthals both came from the same ancestor during the Ice Age I’m talking about which was 400,000 years ago. These people were split because of the ice age. And that’s what caused the same cold adapted genes. From the study: Given the essential role of the mitochondria in skeletal muscle thermogenesis, we propose that the derived G allele, which we have shown provides better protection to the mitochondria, may have been positively selected to facilitate adaptation to cold while providing higher susceptibility to neuropsychiatric traits. This is a plausible scenario for a case of archaic adaptive introgression, as Denisovans and Neanderthals were probably already well adapted to the local environmental conditions modern humans encountered when expanding across Eurasia.