Given that neanderthals and Denisovans had children with homosapiens I wonder how much of their DNA affects us, I had read that there might even be a chance we inherited autism from the Denisovans?
What do you all think?
Given that neanderthals and Denisovans had children with homosapiens I wonder how much of their DNA affects us, I had read that there might even be a chance we inherited autism from the Denisovans?
What do you all think?
There is a New Scientist article that suggests the exact opposite, that neurological divergences like autism, and mental illnesses like schizophrenia, were not found in archaic humans, such as Neanderthals. See it here: Why we get autism but our Neanderthal cousins didn't | New Scientist
This might indicate that we are very human indeed.
I don't wanna be human!
what do you want to be ?
I want to be me, odd strange, slightly left of centre me. Someone who attracts other autists when I sit on a bus, and feel happy when they confide in me that they are autistic, when I knew from the moment they got in. I don't want to be associated too much with 'normals' 'Neurotips' or whatever they call themselves. I feel that comes from my Neanderthal genes, I don't like the possibility that normal people are the neanderthals and that I am just johnny come lately Homosaps. However I would be then having a stronger connection to Africans and I wouldn't mind that.
I want to be me, odd strange, slightly left of centre me. Someone who attracts other autists when I sit on a bus, and feel happy when they confide in me that they are autistic, when I knew from the moment they got in. I don't want to be associated too much with 'normals' 'Neurotips' or whatever they call themselves. I feel that comes from my Neanderthal genes, I don't like the possibility that normal people are the neanderthals and that I am just johnny come lately Homosaps. However I would be then having a stronger connection to Africans and I wouldn't mind that.