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400k years ago is not "quite long ago" on an evolutionary time scale.
by rrr_oh_man 2y ago
400k years ago is not "quite long ago" on an evolutionary time scale.
- yread 2y agoSure, when you're looking at bacteria vs humans these guys are like our twins. But these non-homo hominins were not even our ancestors, they are close to Denisovans https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12788 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12788 Our last common ancestor was ~990k years ago (table 1). That's quite long ago in human development