Denisovan

yeah that is a good point and now i i feel like you have like dragon man or is it called the china guy and you're now it's he's a denisovan um you know or that's what they're saying so i guess they'll probably and which is fine yeah i'm sure it's different dna than ours but um uh so i think it'll it'll end up being maybe it'll be accepted in the realm of okay and if anything's found in the future it was a you know a cousin to us or something

Well, yeah, I'll say that, you know, they found hobbits in Indonesia in 2003.

They found Denisovans in 2010.

Massive teeth, now extremely large skull that was found in China in 2018.

I will go to the other side.

I mean, we got the sort of code that's associated with our immune system.

We got from interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans.

And that admixture is highest in island Southeast Asia, which is essentially where we went.

We sort of got out of Africa, turned right and jogged along the beach and got to where sort of Sumatra and Indonesia are now.

They were there longer than modern humans.

Homo erectus was there.

Denisovan man or the Denisovans were there.

This other species that is just currently half a jawbone and a tooth that's found in Taiwan was probably there.

Maybe Jim even knows a little bit about the elongated skulls.

of either aliens, but they tested their DNA and that they were humanoid ancestors, like different species, because there's different species of humans like Neanderthals and Denisovans and all this stuff.

So that's the elongated skulls.

And then lastly, I wanted to talk about the Circe dream because Circe is an underworld goddess.

Kaspari said he thought that unlikely.

I honestly think that Neanderthals, Denisovans, and maybe Homo erectus already had an idea of what things like cannabis could be used for, he said.

But that will remain really, really difficult to prove.

You've been listening to a reading of articles and features from the Friday, November 6th issue of the New York Times.

Fossil record's so incomplete because it's so difficult to make a fossil.

So when we find new things, like the Denisovans, which is a very recent discovery, we go, oh, well, there's a totally different branch, and they were larger than people.

This is really interesting.

So we don't really know because it's so difficult to make a fossil.

like, oh, well, look at

this.

Now we know there's this kind, and now we know Homo Juliensis, and Homo, you know, there's a whole series of them, the Denisovans.

Yeah, no, and, you know, if we don't kill ourselves off in the near future, it's likely there'll be more of these things.