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Re:Most Life on Earth Is Dormant, After Pulling an 'Emergenc... by rrr_oh_man on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:28AM (#40596153)
400k years ago is not "quite long ago" on an evolutionary time scale.
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Re:Most Life on Earth Is Dormant, After Pulling an 'Emergenc... by yread on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:01AM (#40596381)
Sure, when you're looking at bacteria vs humans these guys are like our twins. But these non-homo hominins were not even our ancestors, they are close to Denisovans

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12788

Our last common ancestor was ~990k years ago (table 1). That's quite long ago in human development

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