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we have an entirely different species of Stone Age hominid walking amongst us
This is false: all living humans belong to the same species, Homo sapiens. Indigenous Australians are a genetically diverse human population, not a separate hominid species.
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Mainstream anthropology and genetics directly contradict the idea that any living human population is an "entirely different species of Stone Age hominid."
- The Smithsonian Human Origins Program states: "The billions of human beings living today all belong to one species: Homo sapiens."
- Its species page likewise says: "The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens."
- The Australian Museum explains that all modern humans are descended from an African population of Homo sapiens and that Homo sapiens is the species to which living humans belong.
- Recent genomic research on Indigenous Australians studies them as human populations within our species, finding deep population structure and unique variation, not a separate species.
So while living human populations can differ genetically and physically in ordinary ways seen within a species, the claim that there is a separate extant "Stone Age hominid" species "walking amongst us" is not supported by accepted human taxonomy or genomics.
4 sources
- One Species, Living Worldwide | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
The billions of human beings living today all belong to one species: Homo sapiens. ... The DNA of all human beings living today is 99.9% alike.
- Homo sapiens | The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program
The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to is Homo sapiens.
- When and where did our species originate? - The Australian Museum
Evidence still suggests that all modern humans are descended from an African population of Homo sapiens ... Homo sapiens share physical features and genetic characteristics that distinguish them from other humans and merit their classification as a separate species.
- Indigenous Australian genomes show deep structure and rich novel variation | Nature
Here we analyse the genomes of 159 individuals from four remote Indigenous communities... Our results show that Indigenous Australians are not a single homogeneous genetic group...