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Joel Kontinen
Evolutionists know that Homo sapiens didn't used to be alone.
“Long ago, there was a lot
more human diversity; Homo sapiens lived
alongside an estimated eight now-extinct species of human about 300,000 years ago. As recently as
15,000 years ago, we were sharing caves with another human species known as the Denisovans And fossilized
remains indicate an even higher number of early human species once populated
Earth before our species came along.”
They have counted a number of species that do not match the human standard, for instance Homo erectus, Homo naledi, the hobbit and Neanderthals. .
However, when we consider that as much as 2% of the average European's DNA comes from Neanderthals and up to 6% of the DNA of some Melanesians (Indigenous people from islands directly northeast of Australia in Oceania) comes from Denisovans, so are we really the same species.
Some experts have argued that the concept of a species doesn't actually exist. as Creationists have argued, There is a difference between species and how it appears on Earth.For instance donkeys and horses are the same species.
John Stewart, an evolutionary paleoecologist at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom says that that the chimpanzee and us have evolved from a common ancestor," Stewart said. If we decide that humans are everything that arrived after our split from ancient chimpanzees about 6 million to 7 million years ago, then it's likely to be a diverse group.
We would agree with that. We believe that what Saint Paul said of Eve, we’re all descendants of a single mother,
Source:
Plackett,Benjamin. 2021.How many early human species existed on Earth Live Science 23 January.
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