The archaic hominin skull from China provisionally classified as a member of the species Homo Longi has been linked to Denisovan DNA and proteins. This also makes it possible to know what a Denisovan looked like as shown in the image below.
The connection has been suspected, but not proven, for some time.
Homo Denisova. The H. Longi group didn't discover the species. And, since there is strong suggestive evidence that Haldane's law applies to admixtures of Sapiens, Nean derthals, and Denisovans (as illustrated by the lack of non-Sapeins Y-DNA, for example), a separate species and not a subspecies is a more appropriate classification.
Let me start with the question the New York Times asked me: What do we call them? I call them Homo sapiens. Just like all living people, the Denisovans are part of our species.
John Hawks and Svante Paabo (Max Plank Institute and Noble Prize winner) prefers Homo Sapiens.
Normally the oldest type specimen would get name priority. And the H. Longi group did advance the claim that it represented a new species. However, in hominins normal may not be the norm.
Normally the oldest type specimen would get name priority.
H. denisovan (Gabriel & Mihaela, 2011),[5] and H. denisova (Gunbin et al., 2012). Gabriel, C.C.; Mihaela, C. (December 2011). "Considerations on human evolution and on species origin centers". Oltenia, Studii si Comunicari, Stiintele Naturii. 27 (2): 210–217. Gunbin, K.V.; Afonnikov, D.A.; Kolchanov, N.A.; Derevianko, A.P. (September 2012). "The Importance of Changes to microRNA in the Evolution of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo denisova". Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia. 40 (3): 22–30. doi:10.1016/j.aeae.2012.11.004.
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do you prefer Homo Longi or Homo Denisova?
Interestingly... Svante Paabo (Max Plank Institute and Noble Prize winner) prefers Homo Sapiens.
Homo Sapiens Denisova :)
Homo Denisova. The H. Longi group didn't discover the species. And, since there is strong suggestive evidence that Haldane's law applies to admixtures of Sapiens, Nean derthals, and Denisovans (as illustrated by the lack of non-Sapeins Y-DNA, for example), a separate species and not a subspecies is a more appropriate classification.
John Hawks
Let me start with the question the New York Times asked me: What do we call them? I call them Homo sapiens. Just like all living people, the Denisovans are part of our species.
John Hawks and Svante Paabo (Max Plank Institute and Noble Prize winner) prefers Homo Sapiens.
Normally the oldest type specimen would get name priority. And the H. Longi group did advance the claim that it represented a new species. However, in hominins normal may not be the norm.
Normally the oldest type specimen would get name priority.
H. denisovan (Gabriel & Mihaela, 2011),[5] and H. denisova (Gunbin et al., 2012).
Gabriel, C.C.; Mihaela, C. (December 2011). "Considerations on human evolution and on species origin centers". Oltenia, Studii si Comunicari, Stiintele Naturii. 27 (2): 210–217.
Gunbin, K.V.; Afonnikov, D.A.; Kolchanov, N.A.; Derevianko, A.P. (September 2012). "The Importance of Changes to microRNA in the Evolution of Homo neanderthalensis and Homo denisova". Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia. 40 (3): 22–30. doi:10.1016/j.aeae.2012.11.004.
Hi Neo, didn't recall that occurring so long ago, thanx. When did the H. Longi group advance their claim?
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