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GreenWave

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9. Yet we have a small % of our genes from Neanderthals.
Sun Dec 4, 2022, 07:47 AM
Dec 2022

"Lucy! You got some 'splaining to do!" (Leakey's Lucy, )

This shows that perhaps opposites do attract! There is another problem in that Neanderthals congregated in Southern Italy. Then one day a supervolcano did them in. (At least in that area.)

I wonder if Sapiens met Floresiensis. Do we truly have all the facts in on that one? To do so we need to establish the realm of Gigantopithecus. No small task since folks around that region use its bones and when dissolved... So my question for anthropology would be:

Did humans fail to compete with the much larger Gigantopithecus and the only way to survive was get little quick, a.k.a. Floresiensis?

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