cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15221988
476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15221988
476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history
Human is specifically Homo Sapiens. The rest of the Homo genus, be they ancestors or not, are not recognized as human.
Nope. There are modern humans (homo sapiens) and archaic humans (extinct homo species).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans
Considering the fact that we interbred with H. neanderthalensis and H. denisova (and still carry the residual DNA to prove it), I think it’s pretty well proven that considering only H. sapiens to be “human” is overly narrow.
Personally, I would argue that anything within the Homo genus is human by definition (that’s what the word means!), and that anything non-human belongs in a genus like Australopithecus or Paranthropus instead.
That’s not entirely accurate anymore.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-homo-sapiens-the-sole-surviving-member-of-the-human-family/