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Homo heidelbergensis, a relative of the Denisovans?

  • 01-02-2016 11:51am
    #1
    Linnaeus
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    Please take a look at this thought-provoking excerpt from a Wikipedia article on Homo heidelbergensis:

    "In 2013 researchers published sequenced DNA from fossils in the Sima de los Huesos cave in the Atapuerca Mountains (Spain), all classified as members of H. heidelbergensis and thought to have given rise to Neanderthal. 'The fossils' identity suddenly became complicated when a study of the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the bones revealed that it did not resemble that of a Neanderthal. Instead, it more closely matched the mtDNA of a Denisovan...'

    Intriguing. Homo heidelbergensis has sometimes been considered to be the common ancestor of both Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens Sapiens. It seems more likely that Heidelbergensis was a member or forebear of the closely-related Neanderthal-Denisovan group which progressed up to a certain point intellectually and physiologically, but then entered into into a dead-end and virtual extinction. Only remnants of their DNA have survived until the present.

    Remember that I'm no expert on the theme of early man...I'd like to hear opinions from other members.:)


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