tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137409915847697670.post2520216400241507185..comments2024-03-17T18:41:00.382-03:00Comments on Patagonian monsters: Homo antecessor and its relationship with Neandethals, Denisovans and HumansAWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11389280995003336103noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137409915847697670.post-25687023374097661902020-04-07T12:25:27.785-03:002020-04-07T12:25:27.785-03:00Yes, Covid-19 is pushing mankind up to the limits,...Yes, Covid-19 is pushing mankind up to the limits, showing our weakness against this kind of threats. Necessarily, a new world must have to arise after this…perhaps a gradually implemented world policy, more focused on the welfare and the needs of all people, could be a feasible goal to achieve to in not so long term.<br /> I wish (as most people do) that we were on the onset of such change…<br /><br />What you have posted is absolutely interesting, and not only due of the extracted conclusions about H. antecessor, which are indeed relevant… but too because of this newly developed scientific approach to infer phylogenetic considerations, that takes advantage on the surprising preservation capabilities of these enamel proteins along time.<br />It appears to be a amazing tool to explore well deep into the Pleistocene, at least in the cases in which the destruction of the sample (or part of it) can be tolerated.<br />Respect to its possible applications, surely there will be many. As an example of them, comes to my mind the subject of your post of October 13, 2019 “Australian pygmies, fact and fiction”, (in which there´s a risky, but interesting speculation of yours)<br />¿What if similar analysis performed on H. floresciensis teeth from Liang Bua site (>60 Ka) or even on Mata Mengue mandible (>700Ka), and also on teeth from extant New Guinea pygmies, could lead to infer “certain” phylogenetic relationships between them???...thus giving some support to, not only “Pygmies first” myth as being real… but also that they were decendents from Hobbit´s arrived from Sundaland…<br /><br />Thank you for keep posting even in this hard times.<br />Best regards<br />Marcelo <br /><br />Marcelo Bruyerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05485948808541641877noreply@blogger.com