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Neanderthal remains may be earliest human ancestor find killed by a spear
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Kwerl lemmy.zip lavenie@lemmy.zip
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LEM 1689 lemmy.sdf.org lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org
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Here I am waiting for a root canal. Tooth pain sucks. Maybe it was a mercy killing.

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cattywampas lemmy.world cattywampas@lemmy.world
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Here I am waiting for a root canal. Tooth pain sucks. Maybe it was a mercy killing.

"But we lived for thousands of generations without fluoride and we were just fine."

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gh0stcassette lemmy.blahaj.zone gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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 FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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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?

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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FiniteBanjo feddit.online FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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Here I am waiting for a root canal. Tooth pain sucks. Maybe it was a mercy killing.

I heard a rumour saying his brother was jealous and hit him with a goat jawbone. /joke

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LEM 1689 lemmy.sdf.org lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org
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I heard a rumour saying his brother was jealous and hit him with a goat jawbone. /joke

Hair-eee!! No run with pointy stick!!! You put eye out! Oh no!

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FiniteBanjo feddit.online FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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Hair-eee!! No run with pointy stick!!! You put eye out! Oh no!

Abel, actually.

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LEM 1689 lemmy.sdf.org lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org
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Abel, actually.

Ohhh, I get it now.

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psud aussie.zone psud@aussie.zone
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Here I am waiting for a root canal. Tooth pain sucks. Maybe it was a mercy killing.

They didn't have much sugar, that has excellent dental health

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MonkderVierte lemmy.zip MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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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?

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 Smoogs@lemmy.world
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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?

the guardian

there's your answer

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