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Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier. I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but
by diddlybopshubop 2y ago
Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier.
I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but it's only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there's been one extant human subspecies.
- kingofthehill98 2y agoThe craziest thing for me is that there's a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.
- danielbln 2y agoWhy is that crazy? Looking at human history, this doesn't come as much of a shock, does it?
- checkyoursudo 2y agoHumans do like to fuck.
- dmd 2y agorishathra
- dyauspitr 2y agoInterbred is putting it mildly. More like killed the men and raped all the women. This was repeated again with the Yamnaya from the Caucasus a few millennia ago where they again killed all the men and raped all the women.
- im3w1l 2y agoHow certainly do we actually know that? If the evidence you claim is that there are no Y-chromosomes from other hominids, an alternative explanation could be that hybrids with Y-chromosomes from other hominids did exist, but disappeared gradually over the centuries/millenia either because they were less fit or through pure chance. Are there any now living people with mt-dna from other hominids? Having a minority non-autosomal genotype could be an issue as there might be recurring "compatibility problems", given that the autosomal dna would mainly evolve to work with the majority mtdna and ydna.
- ginko 2y agoThe genetic evidence points into the other direction: > There is considerably less Neanderthal ancestry on the X-chromosome compared to the autosomal chromosomes, which similarly suggests that admixture with modern humans was primarily the result of mating between modern human females and Neanderthal males. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genetics#Parentage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genetics#Parentage
- IAmBroom 2y agoChicks dig those big, furry eyebrows.
- gigachad69 2y agoa lot of evidence as in most europeans, eurasians and east asians have some percentage of neanderthal genes in their DNA
- wincy 2y agoIf you’ve seen Star Trek the Original Series it shows you precisely how much humans are into humanoid subspecies. They could be green for all a dude who hasn’t seen a woman in a week could care!
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> They could be green for all a dude who hasn’t seen a woman in a week could care! Not a great example; the green women are specifically shown to exert pheromonal control over alien males.
- IAmBroom 2y agoI can't smell them on TV, and Vina the Orion still had a lot of control over me.
- encipriano 2y agoIsnt neanderthal sapiens. Also, not all modern humans
- IAmBroom 2y ago"sapiens" is our species name. They are Homo neanderthalis, so they are Homo, which is probably what you were intending.
- kbrannigan 2y agoWhat if the literature of God Created men(mankind) in his image came to differentiate Homo sapiens from others. Or the history really began once the other Humans were no more ? Just passing thoughts
- Gerardo1 2y agoThere are at least several thousand years between the last non-modern human hominids dying out and the first writing emerging.
- nkoren 2y agoAbout 20,000 years in fact.
- IAmBroom 2y agoI've been thinking about this a lot, by coincidence, as I read Unsong by Scott Alexander (unsongbook.com). It's a beautifully written somewhat comic and somewhat tragic story about the kabbalic-turned-capitalist search for the powerful Names of God. It occurred to me that, if the Abrahamic God exists, and the origin of Adam is anything more than a mere metaphor, God must have had to make a decision at some point. "There!", He/She/It said as the last vital chromosome fell into place in generation Aleph-1, "All this work is finally done. Whew! I could use some rest." Or something. But maybe it's all metaphor (except for the God existing part). Maybe the Garden of Eden was Us (big-us, all the hominids) co-existing without technology, and the rise of flint-knapping/agriculture/representational art/whatever was the "eating of the fruit and gaining of knowledge". Or any other variation you like, as long as you're not intentionally bound from thinking by a literalist view of the Torah's Book of Genesis. In which case, I have bad news: "Adam" wasn't even named that in the early writings, presumably closer to God's word. So, your translation is a bad start for you. So, maybe the "Twelve Tribes of Israel" are themselves metaphoric for the whole set of hominin branches. Maybe "Ham" was Paranthropus. Accepting that "seven" in the bible sometimes implies "an important big number", maybe "seven" generations later (give or take a few 100) Paranthropus died out completely. Poor Ham. He was just checking to make sure Dad didn't oversleep. Or maybe, there is no God, and it's just fun to play with myths, which are culturally powerful.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier. Usually those would be called hominids, not humans.