We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew

Re:We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew by graemep on Monday June 23, 2025 @05:42AM (#44353926)

> For some broader context missing from the article, there's been a long-running "controversy" with certain people in the Chinese Academy of Sciences making an argument called the multiregional hypothesis that modern Chinese evolved in China out of archaic hominins.

It is appealing because it justifies racism. It is just the contemporary version of polygenism of racial science.

That said, even if human evolution is more complex than simple out of Africa, all of humanity has a lot of shared ancestry and genetics do not support the concept of race.

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Re:We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew by IAmBroom on Monday June 23, 2025 @09:26AM (#44355592)

It always reminds me of the Japanese attempts to diminish the status and history of the Ainu, a caucasoid racial group from their northernmost islands.

Extensive research and data now point to the Ainu having lived on those islands from long before Chinese people first sailed to Japan and populated it - making the despised Ainu the true, actual Native Japanese.

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Re:We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew by amarait on Monday June 23, 2025 @05:12PM (#44360167)

This is like trying to hide neanderthals because they seem to point to some of the differences in european populations traits such as white skin or blue eyes. If theres evidence I dont think it benefits anybody to discredit it under the racism label

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