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Anthropology

eppur_se_muova

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5. We know at least two species interbred with H. sapiens ...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 10:30 AM

Nov 2019

... so they may have gone extinct as a pure species, but their genes survive. "Exterminate" is an attention-getter in a headline, but a bit hyperbolic.

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300,000 years ago, nine human species lived on Earth. Did homo sapiens exterminate the others? [View all] Judi Lynn Nov 2019 OP

Quite interesting! Thanks for posting!!! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2019 #1

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Thanks for the additional info Bradshaw3 Nov 2019 #6

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It's highly unlikely that humans caused the extinction of all of these large North American animals sagesnow Nov 2019 #4

We know at least two species interbred with H. sapiens ... eppur_se_muova Nov 2019 #5

No! tamhas Nov 2019 #7

Here are a couple of links canetoad Nov 2019 #8

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Hey GP canetoad Nov 2019 #11

Welcome to DU and GP6971 Nov 2019 #9

Could also have partly been an inadvertent act because around that time cstanleytech Nov 2019 #12