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theadvancedapes  ·  4139 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Did Hobbits Look Like?

Species definition are always tricky and really approximations of natural reality. Some have classified modern human remains from 160,000 years ago as a subspecies of modern humans: Homo sapiens idaltu.

EDIT:

I'm going to write a post about this soon, but we really know nothing about modern humans between 100,000-200,000 years ago. This is half of modern human existence. We just have (essentially) no data.





humanodon  ·  4139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ok, well I guess I'll just wait patiently for your post then. I look forward to it! Thanks for clearing things up a bit.