What were Denisovans like?

What were Denisovans like?

Joseph Layden, Author of The Unnamed Bears Favor

Answered 20m ago

From what we can tell from their genes and close supposed relatives, they were much like Neanderthals except a good bit taller. At least some of them adapted to extremely high altitudes, hence their lineage is the first known in Tibet and the Altai regions. Sherpas inherited a gene from them which helps survival at high altitudes. 

Female specimens of Western Neanderthals and Denisova relatives such as Dali stand 6 foot tall and are hyper robust. Though male full skeletons haven't been found of them or their lineage, if they had the same sexual dimorphism ration as other archaics that would put males at well over 7 feet tall.

They were extremely sophisticated compared to us, with the first jewelry and sewing needles known.

Because of their association with late Peking Man, who lived with small canines,,,and since the first domesticated dogs hail from the Altai region before homo sapiens are known there…we might suspect they had some kind of canine domestication going on.They lived and breeded with one type of Neanderthal in the Altai, but were replaced by another type of Neanderthal some 32000 years ago, so they may not have been as hyper-aggressive as later Neanderthals.

Because of the early sewing needles, we may assume they had little body hair. Though most scientists assume Neanderthals had lost their body hair too, there are no known Neanderthal sewing needles and they dont seem to have used fire for warmth, even in the artic. Though the gene for nakedness swept through Africa around 1.2 million years ago, there is no reason to assume the same gene underwent positive sexual selection in Neanderthals. i.e. Though one ancestor of Neanderthals entered Europe 60,000 to 900,000 years ago as a naked ape, they seem to have hybridized with Homo Erectus Antecessor there who likely still had fur, Maybe Denisovans still had fur too, and blankets were still needed that high up during the Ice Age. Denisovan would have known about fire, since Peking Man used it, but we don’t know if they used it for warmth. Neanderthals seem to have used it mostly for making complex tars and glue.

So basically they were either like Yetis or like Titans from Greek mythology.

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