>>11442890>If you want to take the edge pill you can assume that this is why africa has so much genetic diversity in the homo sapiens. Maybe the niolotics and pygmies have 2% dna from one of these ape men in the same way that Europeans have 2% Neanderthal dnaRecent DNA testing has actually confirmed this - look up "ghost hominid dna" - west Africans have sizeable admixture from a yet undiscovered hominid. Likewise pygmies & khoisan also have a few percent admixture from another hominid.
As a side note, it isn't just Europeans who have Neanderthal DNA, pretty much every group outside of Africa has like 1%-4% neanderthal DNA, and some east Africans a smaller portion. Then there is the Denisoviana; Australian aboriginals & Papua New Guineans are ~5% denisovian, and south eastern Asians ~0.5%.
