re: #43 freetoken

John Hawkes gives an interesting write-up relating a recent paper of Indian middle to late paleolithic human population evidence with the increasing genetic evidence of unique Denisovan genetics among the indigenous of Australia and SE Asia east of the Wallace line:

Denisovans and the Middle Paleolithic of India

Evidence is growing that we are descended from groups of anatomically modern humans from Africa that multiply interacted with other early human populations over a period of several tens of millennia. This would mean our modern ancestry is a kind of a network of ancestral populations, with dominant strands from a single population in Africa but with lots of multiply connecting other strands.

What a cool blog. Thank you for linking to it, not just for this article but for the whole. I’m going to be reading that one for a long time to get current on the Denisovians especially. I’ve read some on them but it sounds as if a fair bit more has been learned since those initial papers.