Denisovan

Uh, it's definitely human.

Um, basically what the DNA shows is the, the 58.5% Neanderthal is also includes Denisovan, and that Denisovan is, uh, Asian Neanderthal.

And so you have this European Neanderthal, uh, this, uh, Denisovan, and then you also have some indigenous people's DNA in it.

So it shows a clear, uh, kind of trajectory if you're looking ge- geographically that it, you know, from Europe all the way over to the Americas, kinda like how, um, humans spread across the, the globe.

The- these also did that before the Bering land straight closed.

Modern humans and Neanderthals.

Modern humans and Denisovans.

Neanderthals and Denisovans.

These interbreeding events leave distinctive genetic signatures, patterns that can confuse population genetic models if you're not accounting for them properly.

Here's the scenario.

They became the Neanderthals, robust and powerful, perfectly suited to hunting ahassive Ice Age mammals in brutally cold climates.

Others moved east across Asia, spreading from the Middle East to Indonesia.

They became the Denisovans, mysterious and successful, leaving their genetic mark across populations from Siberia to the Pacific Islands, and some stayed in Africa.

But I mean, pretty much anything else you care to look at, you'll find there's a hybrid origin behind it.

I mean, even humans, even humans, we've recently discovered that we cross with Neanderthals and Denisovans as we spread across the planet.

And that probably helped us adapt to cold places and high altitude places in a way that we couldn't have done on our own.

And what determines if something can successfully cross and then have viable offspring? Like why don't honey eaters and magpies cross to make like hag pies? Why don't species of birds? Why aren't things just crossing all over the shop?

Uh, but see, it's all among ourselves, the same species.

Th- there are some Nepalese, they may be Denisovans, uh, you know, there's a sister species.

Some of them are little bit, just check your ears.

If your ear is stuck to the face, that means you have a little bit of maybe a few percentage points of Denisovans.

[laughs] Uh, so otherwise, they're all Homo sapiens, whether they're, uh, white, Black, yellow, brown, whatever they are.

All right? So it's always among ourselves.

Mm-hmm.

And when I started doing this...

This kind of goes off on another small rabbit trail, but, uh, Christians have struggled for a very long time to explain where various hominids came from, right? If the theory of evolution is not true, if there is no evolving of one species into another over vast eons of time, et cetera, so where did these, where did these beings come from? Some Christian organizations argue that specific hominids, like Neanderthal or the Denisovans, uh, were actually just very intelligent man-like animals.

But they didn't bear the image of God, and they, you know, they, they just weren't anything more than some type of really smart, you know, man-like creature.

Uh, but that, that totally ignores the idea of the Nephilim, and when you- That, by the way, I go into a lot of peer-reviewed literature in my book about this particular subject.

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As time has gone on, we've discovered that that's not true.

Neanderthals and Denisovans lived for a significant period of time alongside Homo sapiens sapiens before they went extinct.

Within another 10,000 years, they would be completely gone.

Further east, modern humans encountered a different group of archaic humans, the Denisovans.

We know even less about the physical meetings between modern humans and Denisovans because the archaeological evidence is so sparse.

But the genetic evidence is unambiguous.

Modern humans and Denisovans interbred extensively, probably in multiple locations across Asia over thousands of years.

Today, people with ancestry from Papua New Guinea carry up to 5% Denisovan DNA, far more than the Neanderthal contribution in Europeans.

Other Asian populations carry smaller but significant amounts.

That's natural selection preserving a useful adaptation inherited from an extinct species.