Different in degree or kind: human bush (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, December 09, 2013, 15:03 (4002 days ago) @ David Turell

Human evolution is really a bush of many kinds, mixing and not mixing, and certainly not a direct line from chimps.:-"They were complicated. Their relationships cannot be described by drawing straight lines between fossil samples. There were multiple lines of influence among them, small degrees of mixture and large-scale migrations. Europe was far from a slowly evolving population "accreting" Neandertal features over time. The Neandertals we know did not lumber into their doom; they expanded rapidly, multiple times, from non-European origins. They were as dynamic as the Middle Stone Age Africans who would later mix with them and expand across the world. -So I don't find the Sima mtDNA to be the least bit surprising. It's refreshing!"-
http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/neandertal_dna/sima-de-los-huesos-dna-meyer-2013.html