Age of Hominids: The Four Races

The reason that I think Denisovans still would have blond hair is that the genetic irregularity causing Solomon blond hair is impossible to find unless it's being looked for, otherwise their genome is the same as someone with brown hair. The genetic study probably got the girl's hair wrong.

Keep in mind that we know some Neandertals had red hair (independent mutation from modern human red hair), and others had brown hair. So it's possible some Denisovans were blond, and others were not.

That said, the archeogenetic information suggest Denisovans went through a much stronger bottleneck than Neandertals, meaning its plausible to assume they might have lacked (at that point, at least) notable "races."
 
Here's what I've got so far.
1. Humans and Neanderthals create Homo Saiyan
2. Denisovans migrate to the Americas
3. Floresiensis is left alone due to hunter-gatherers not having a reason to discover them.
4. Floresiensis develops boats and sails to the edge of Indonesia while others are inventing civilization.
 
what if millenia after the dawn of civilization, Floresisensis is enslaved. They are considered animals that happen to have the advantage of being smart. They are bred for strength and intelligence. Then they rebel. Those who escape return to where they used to live, where their species was eradicated, surviving only in captivity. They are a new species, Homo Libertus.
 
what if millenia after the dawn of civilization, Floresisensis is enslaved. They are considered animals that happen to have the advantage of being smart. They are bred for strength and intelligence. Then they rebel. Those who escape return to where they used to live, where their species was eradicated, surviving only in captivity. They are a new species, Homo Libertus.

Not a bad idea.
 
what if millenia after the dawn of civilization, Floresisensis is enslaved. They are considered animals that happen to have the advantage of being smart. They are bred for strength and intelligence. Then they rebel. Those who escape return to where they used to live, where their species was eradicated, surviving only in captivity. They are a new species, Homo Libertus.

When does civilization pop up in this timeline?
 
I guess that H. Saiyan might have civilization a millenium sooner, Denisovans would develop civilization around when the native Americans did, and Floresiensis never does, Libertus starts a civilization as soon as it gains freedom.
 
Could Libertus discover the Americas, or Denisovans discover Polynesia?

Well it depends on their ability to make vessels. Some historians believe humans arrived in South America via Polynesia. Whilst this is unlikely, it could happen, however, Libertus probably would never find America due to it not needing large boats that got humans across the pacific (and possibly to the Americas). The only way Libertus could get to America is via the Bering channel, which would be opening up by this point, but navigable for the Libertus. For the Denisovans, they most likely could (and possibly would) be able to transverse the Pacific due to their larger size. They could of discovered America in this timeline, crossing both the Bering channel and/or Polynesia and the Pacific.
 
For the Denisovans, they most likely could (and possibly would) be able to transverse the Pacific due to their larger size. They could of discovered America in this timeline, crossing both the Bering channel and/or Polynesia and the Pacific.

I was actually planning on the Denisovans having crossed the land bridge earlier, and going to Polynesia, like Thor Heyerdhol, in superior boats to what Libertus had. They might spread their nautical technologies to libertus.
 
While the idea of a bunch of archaic Gokus is cool, I think that H. Saiyan is a bit irrational. It might exist purely in the middle east, but African H. Sap. would stay purebred along with European neanderthals.
 
While the idea of a bunch of archaic Gokus is cool, I think that H. Saiyan is a bit irrational. It might exist purely in the middle east, but African H. Sap. would stay purebred along with European neanderthals.
Actually, majority of Humans had some Neanderthal blood from the getgo, so majority of Humans will be Hybrids and the Hybrids will be anatomically similar to pure Homo-Sapiens.
 
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There is a good map of ice age climates in the empire of a hundred millenia thing, I think that Neanderthals were so specialized that they would be absorbed into humans, it's insane how much more grassland there was than forest. But if perhaps the POD was earlier than the glacial maximim, there would be more forest where plains would one day be, and plains where desert would one day be.
 
There is a good map of ice age climates in the empire of a hundred millenia thing, I think that Neanderthals were so specialized that they would be absorbed into humans, it's insane how much more grassland there was than forest. But if perhaps the POD was earlier than the glacial maximim, there would be more forest where plains would one day be, and plains where desert would one day be.

Here's that image:

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Yeah, Neanderthals could only live in the black colored areas of europe at that time, they were in their prime long before that. Was there any eden that they could escape to where their native forests would stay there until the glacial maximum ended? otherwise they would have to be completely absorbed into H. Sap. to survive.
 
What if, when Neanderthal forests had just begun shrinking, they allied with humans to create a hybrid Persistence-Ambush hunting method in which humans chase animals into Neanderthal ambushes. This would benefit both by giving neanderthals a chance to survive in the changing world and giving humans the ability to hunt much larger game. over time the interbreed to create Homo Ibrida.
 
No idea with the Denisovans, as we know next to fuck all about them, other than their genetic contribution to modern humans.
 
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