#denisovans

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Another sketch brought to you by #paleostream

A Denisovan is diving in a clear lake only to discover the remains of a mammoth below the waves

#paleoart #sciart #swimming #mammoth #denisovans #human #homo #paleostream #palaeoblr #pleistocene

[chrysocomae]

I... I need a moment 🥺

#humanity #denisovans #archaic humans #tibet #wikipedia

[mindblowingscience]

Early risers might have Neanderthal DNA to thank for their morning habits, an early study suggests. An analysis found genes passed on by Neanderthals and Denisovans, two ancient cousins of modern-day humans, may help make some of us morning people. "This was really exciting to us, and not expected," Tony Capra at the University of California, San Francisco, told New Scientist.

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#Science #Genetics #DNA #Neanderthals #Denisovans #Homo Sapiens

[ancientorigins]

According to scientists the interbreeding with ancient Denisovans led to a slight variation in zinc regulation resulting in modern day mental health issues.

#DNA #genome #Homo sapiens #Denisovans #mental health #depression #modern humans #ancient #history #ancient origins

[altamira-a]

Fun Archeology Fact #1: Dennis

The Denisovans, an extinct hominin that was present around Asia during the lower/middle Paleolithic is named like that because the cave they were found in was the same cave a 18th century hermit lived in. His name was Dionisij, or, the translated version (which ended up feeding into the name,) Dennis.

#anthropology #archeology #dennis #denisovans #hominins #This mf will really be immortalized through an Entire hominin species #I can't even find that much information on Dennis besides he lived there #what a guy

[jingszo]

Along with more fossils and artifacts, the DNA findings are pointing us to a challenging idea: We're not so special. For most of human history we shared the planet with other kinds of early humans, and those now-extinct groups were a lot like us.

We can see them as being fully human. But, interestingly, a different kind of human.

What's more, humans had close—even intimate—interactions with some of these other groups, including Neanderthals, Denisovans and "ghost populations" we only know from DNA.

#ancient humans #Neanderthals #denisovans #ghost populations

[enthusispastic]

An Irish drag queen who's a paleoanthropologist as a day job who performs under the name of Denise O'vahominin

#paleoanthropology #paleoblr #denisovans #drag names #not quite my gender

[neiyuu]

i wonder how different earth would be if Denisovans and Neanderthals survived.

#Just imagine #IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES #Idk the connections with homo naledi too #denisovans #neanderthal #anthropology #Human History

[theforesteldritch]

And while I'm on the subject of old hominids we know that there was once a girl who had a neanderthal mother and a denisovan father. She was a hybrid between the two species, the only first-generation hybrid we have actually found DNA from. Thousands and thousands and thousands of years after she lived and died we found her. We gave her a name- Denny. We don't know how she lived or what her life was like- we can't even really guess much at what she looked like. We only have found tiny fragments of her bones. But since we can't know what she was called in her time we named her with one of the languages of our time, we looked through her genetic code and where she was found to try to find any more clues we can about her. She was a hybrid between two other hominid species that are long gone but we found her and we said, she is one of us, and we are trying to find the story of this girl who lived unimaginably long ago, this girl that all we've found left of her is a little bit of bone. She is long dead but we're still trying to find and tell her story.

I think it's beautiful. Something something the poetry of compassion and humanity across time. Her memory lives on through us.

#neanderthal #denisovans #moth rambles

[magnetothemagnificent]

Humans are such a lonely species. We're the only extant species in our Genus. Our closet relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, are also in our DNA. We lived side-by-side with our other Genus members and now they're all extinct. Maybe that's why we're so bent on leaving a legacy, on changing our landscape because we're so scarred by the extinction of our cousins. Of not being alone in the world and then suddenly being so, so alone. Our quest for immortality through memory has doomed civilizations, but we persist. We're so different from how we were in the past but we're still the same. We're scared prey in the dark and ambitious predators. We're so terrified of being alone in the world that we believe in gods and angels and extraterrestrial humanoid beings because we're trying to fill in the gap left in our species' collective memory of other Genus members. We're obsessed with finding faces in everything because we used to find faces not so different from our own. We're so lonely yet so robust. There's so many of us. We're resilient but so fragile. We bond with animals not even closely related to us, even inanimate objects because we're so lonely. We're always fighting with each other but we're so afraid. We look to the stars because our closest relatives are fossilized. We're so lonely and so human.

#anthropology #pensive #humanity #loneliness #homo neanderthalensis #homo denisova #denisovans #neanderthals #human evolution #human condition #existentialism #homo sapiens

[ancestorsalive]

Cave Art Shocker: Denisovans Did It? (Or Did They?)

via World of Paleoanthropology

#youtube #Cave Art #Denisovans #The Paleo Post Podcast #First Peoples #Ancient Ways #world of paleoanthropology #paleoanthropology #Cave Art Shocker #Denisovan Did It? (Or Did They?)

[lets-talk-spirituality]

. I read a lot about this because we had the Neanderthals which were a separate human race that was able to in-breed with Homo sapiens sapiens, and did. There was also the denisovians. // who and what are those 😧😧?? Never heard anything of these oh my god!? Please tell us and where are those like when how what where full question statements 😭😭😂

I linked a nat geo article in the ask! But here’s some others.

Neanderthals made humans more adaptable

Denisovian cave girl

Kissing Neanderthals

Neanderthal extinction

What Denisovans looked like

Neanderthal DNA

Sometimes I find myself going down rabbit holes and this was one of them. Initially I was curious why we only had one human species! Then just googled a ton of stuff. These articles will tell you way more than I can!

#ask box #ancient humans #neanderthal #denisovans

[pastel-strawberry-shorthcake]

Do you ever think of the other humans? Homo erectus, homo habilis, homo rudelfensis, the neanderthals, the denisovans and the others?

Sometimes I miss them.

#autistic behavior #science #humanity #neanderthal #denisovans #human evolution #evolution #musings

[ancientorigins]

It’s long been believed that darker skin in humans evolved as a defense against the sun’s rays. A new study may have just turned this long-held belief about ancient human skin color diversity on its head.

#Human Evolution #Neanderthals #Denisovans #Hominins #Race #Genetics #ancient #history #ancient origins

[shetumbler]

How's the Nobel prize for Medicine linked to our understanding of the earliest forms of embroidery?

The needle must be the smallest yet most important tool developed by the early humans that aided their survival and migration. Needles helped them to stitch clothing that protected them from harsh environments and also decorated them with embroidery. 

The oldest needle discovered is 50,000 years old, from a Siberian Cave. The astounding thing is that the needle was not made by the Homo Sapiens but by another human species called the Denisovans. We merely adapted the tool after them. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on human evolution.

 He achieved the seemingly impossible task of cracking the genetic code of one of our extinct relatives - Neanderthals.He also performed the "sensational" feat of discovering the previously unknown relative - Denisovans, the ones thought to have given us the humble and mighty needle.

Be proud to pick up this tool and start stitching! Find more such information in our encyclopedic 600-page hand embroidery eBook.

  Our bookstore: https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/product/ News: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63116304

#needles #denisovans #hand embroidery #ebooks #nobel prize #neanderthals #Svante Paabo

[ashintheairlikesnow]

What is your favorite mythical creature?

100% vampires. Yetis are a close second.

Yetis, or ape men, Bigfoot etc are such an interesting thing. Sure, Bigfoot is just a silly story, but these stories didn't start with Bigfoot. The Yeti and creatures like him have been in our tales since we began.

Because if you consider them, they are sighting of bipedal apes, like us and not like us. Primates in our lineage who walk upright but whose features we don't fully recognize as human, covered in hair. These stories are everywhere, throughout the entire world. They are legends older than civilization, told and retold.

They are stories we once told around the fire to our children, when we feared the dark because we had no way to safely dwell in it, no guaranteed reliable light source to chase it away.

Which.

They're Neanderthals. Or hominids before us of some kind. Something that overlapped just enough to have been seen and then faded into the ether of history.

But we remember that once there were more than only us here. The bones and blood of many of us still have traces of a nonhuman lineage left, Neanderthals and Denisovans who we once whispered with in the night and then overran.

The Yeti is just a genetic memory of a time we weren't the only hominids, I think. And one we can't let go of.

#ask ash something and she'll answer #ash rambles #about #prehistory #neanderthal #denisovans #yeti #bigfoot