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I'll admit this is the first I've encountered the concept that "neanderthals and denisovians and so on" are not human. Maybe not biologically modern humans, but

I'll admit this is the first I've encountered the concept that "neanderthals and denisovians and so on" are not human. Maybe not biologically modern humans, but I'd certainly consider them fundamentally human.

MattPalmer1086 2y ago
We're all part of the genus "homo", but to me, "human" refers to "homo sapiens". I was sufficiently surprised to hear that humans were around 600k years ago that I came here to comment. The Wikipedia article [1] on humans makes the same point. It does acknowledge that some use the term human to refer to all members of the genus homo, but this is not the common usage. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
- kman82 2y ago
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Wissenschafter 2y ago
Bizarre, this is the first I've encountered the concept of someone thinking Neanderthals and Denisovans were "Human".
- orhmeh09 2y ago
  Allow me to further blow your mind: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-were-the-neanderthals.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-were-the-neanderthals.htm... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/are-neanderthals-human/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/are-neanderthals-human...