When most people are told to picture a “human” they will imagine a man with small hairs all over the body, standing on two legs with high intellectual abilities. That depiction would not be far off from what has to be met in order for something to be considered human. Everything really depends on what an ancestor was able to do with what they evolved. In the video “Becoming Human Part 2” all of the experts try to decide if the “Turkana Boy” was a human. With all of …show more content…
These are ancient ancestors of the modern humans because their DNA is very similar. The evidence that we have of them are just a tooth, toe bone, and finger bone. They lived during the same time as the Neanderthals and are said to live in the Russia Asia area. What the Denisovans looked like is very hard to pin point because there is such little fossil information. All scientist have been able to do is compare the bones they have to modern humans and Neanderthals. Just like it says in Gibbons (2011) article “it remains unknown what the Denisovan looked like or how he behaved.” The story with these possible human ancestors is at a dead end because there is very little evidence to