“. . . all our close relatives
eventually died out, leaving Homo sapiens as the only human species. Their
extinctions add one more intriguing, perhaps unanswerable question to the story
of our evolution – why are we the only humans to survive?”
it is an interesting article
published on-line by the Smithsonian magazine
he found it curious why the question
was asked
why five plus two?
of six hominin became extinct
Homo (H.) habilis – H. erectus – H. heidelbergensis – H. neanderthalensis
(commingled with Altai Denisovan (which then propagated two additional species
H. floresiensis and H. luzonensis)) – H.
sapiens
given H. sapiens proclivity for
violence and bloodlust
his answer wouldnt be audacious
Murdered the Other
anthen regarding our
singular remaining genus genus certainly not genius
the extermination of Others
were good at it
were cruel
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“Neanderthals
once stretched across Eurasia from Portugal and the British Isles to Siberia.
As Homo sapiens became more prevalent across these areas
the Neanderthals faded in their turn, being generally consigned to history by
some 40,000 years ago. Some evidence suggests that a few die-hards might
have held on in enclaves, like Gibraltar, until perhaps 29,000 years ago. Even
today traces of them remain because modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA in their genome.
“Our more mysterious cousins, the Denisovans, left behind so few
identifiable fossils that scientists aren’t exactly sure what they looked like,
or if they might have been more than one species. A recent study of human
genomes in Papua New Guinea suggests that humans may have lived with and
interbred with Denisovans there as recently as 15,000 years ago, though the
claims are controversial. Their genetic legacy is more certain. Many living
Asian people inherited
perhaps 3 to 5 percent of their DNA from the Denisovans.
“Despite the bits of genetic ancestry they contributed to living
people, all of our close relatives eventually died out, leaving Homo
sapiens as the only human species. Their extinctions add one
more intriguing, perhaps unanswerable question to the story of our
evolution—why were we the only humans to survive?”
https://www.verslo.is/home/Raungreinar/lif/Itarefni/Throun/Throunarsaga%20mannaettar(e).htm
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/overview-of-hominin-evolution-89010983/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/enigmatic-human-relative-outlived-neanderthals
