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Meet our ancestors the Denisovans, of southern Siberia

Uploaded by LozTheAtheist on Dec 22, 2010

An entirely separate kind of human existed alongside Neanderthals and our early ancestors - and even interbred with them, scientists say.

An international group of researchers used DNA extracted from a finger bone of one of the "Denisovans", named after the caves where their remains were first discovered.

The Natural History Museum's Professor Chris Stringer said the implications of the study, published in the journal Nature, were "nothing short of sensational".
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Mentioned by Professor Stringer in the video above is this character ..

Homo heidelbergensis ("Heidelberg Man", named after the University of Heidelberg) is an extinct species of the genus Homo which may be the direct ancestor of both Homo neanderthalensis in Europe and Homo sapiens. The best evidence found for these hominins dates them between 600,000 and 400,000 years ago. H. heidelbergensis stone tool technology was very close to that of the Acheulean tools used by Homo erectus.



Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Subtribe: Hominina
Genus: Homo
Species: H. heidelbergensis
Binomial name
Homo heidelbergensis
Schoetensack, 1908


A reconstruction of Homo heidelbergensis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis

======== .. lol, the certainty of the BBC announcer in this one stands in stark
contrast with the proper uncertainty of the scientist Professor Stringer ..

======== .. all of us it seems have about 2-2.5% of the genetic Neanderthal ..

oh .. later in that one the guy suggests up to 4% .. that might explain the unsocial attitudes of so many non-liberals .. chuckle ..