gh0stcassette comments on Neanderthal remains may be earliest human ancestor find killed by a spear

[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Dogshit title tbh. Neanderthals were not ancestral to Homo sapiens, we both descended from H heidelbergensis (a particular clade of late H erectus). If they can't even get that right, why are they writing science journalism for the Guardian?

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 9 points 3 days ago

I think it's universally accepted that crossbreeding between the two was likely, that most if not all humans carry some small amount of Neanderthal DNA.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

A phylogenic model depicts (from lower right) Homo erectus spreading from Africa to Eurasia around 1.8 millions of years ago. Its descendant H. heidelbergensis originated Denisovans, Neanderthals, and H. sapiens (humans) around 350,000 years ago.

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago

the guardian

there's your answer

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