Seperately? Didn't we kill and interbreed with Neanderthals and shit?
Also didn't humans only leave Africa less than 100 000 years ago? And our genome is no where as flexible as other animals, if you want to put it that way.
Modern humans left Africa something like 100,000 years ago, but predecessor species like Homo heidelbergensis (found in Spain) and Homo erectus (found in Indonesia) had left Africa hundreds of thousands of years before that. One of the things that broke my brain in college was realizing all the human off-shoot species also had boats and had already gone across nearly the whole world before modern humans showed up.
I thought the Americas, Australia, most of the Pacific, and far northern Eurasia were all only reached by homo sapiens. Is there evidence of other humans species going to those places?
Also didn’t humans only leave Africa less than 100 000 years ago?
The Homo genus proliferated around the world several times over, with different species and subspecies of humanoid dating back tens of millions of years.
Homo Erectus - the progenitors of modern Homo Sapeins Sapeins, and a number of other close relatives - demonstrate a fossil record as far away as the Philippines. The "Flores Man" was a genuine subspecies living out on the island of Flores, Indonesia until extinction around 50,000 years ago.
Africa happened to be a font of human and near-human relations. It served as a veritable Garden of Eden for genetic diversification. But humanity and its off-shoots were not confined there over its millions of years of evolution.
The human genome is incredibly homogeneous when the widespread distribution throughout the world is considered. This is due to a fairly severe genetic bottleneck at the last ice age as well as the fact that we are constantly moving about and fucking everything that moves.
I had a professor once who said that if aliens came to earth and examined humans they would think we all originated from a population of clones because we are all so alike, I don't know how true that is, but I like the anecdote.
Seperately? Didn't we kill and interbreed with Neanderthals and shit?
Also didn't humans only leave Africa less than 100 000 years ago? And our genome is no where as flexible as other animals, if you want to put it that way.
Modern humans left Africa something like 100,000 years ago, but predecessor species like Homo heidelbergensis (found in Spain) and Homo erectus (found in Indonesia) had left Africa hundreds of thousands of years before that. One of the things that broke my brain in college was realizing all the human off-shoot species also had boats and had already gone across nearly the whole world before modern humans showed up.
Yeah the whole "evolved seperately" is nonsense.
I thought the Americas, Australia, most of the Pacific, and far northern Eurasia were all only reached by homo sapiens. Is there evidence of other humans species going to those places?
The Homo genus proliferated around the world several times over, with different species and subspecies of humanoid dating back tens of millions of years.
Homo Erectus - the progenitors of modern Homo Sapeins Sapeins, and a number of other close relatives - demonstrate a fossil record as far away as the Philippines. The "Flores Man" was a genuine subspecies living out on the island of Flores, Indonesia until extinction around 50,000 years ago.
Africa happened to be a font of human and near-human relations. It served as a veritable Garden of Eden for genetic diversification. But humanity and its off-shoots were not confined there over its millions of years of evolution.
Damn, the Flores people had some big eyes
The human genome is incredibly homogeneous when the widespread distribution throughout the world is considered. This is due to a fairly severe genetic bottleneck at the last ice age as well as the fact that we are constantly moving about and fucking everything that moves.
I had a professor once who said that if aliens came to earth and examined humans they would think we all originated from a population of clones because we are all so alike, I don't know how true that is, but I like the anecdote.