More importantly that they knew an island was within reach of a long rowing trip. If you didn’t know an island was there you would be crazy to set off.
I wonder how many researchers actually think they need a few hundred more samples to get a very clear idea of how an entire race of people, or species, actually looked. Mutations, retardation etc is quite prevalent. So much so it would be a bit risky to assume too much off a very small sample size.
Example. In 10000 years if scientists found this skull, and only this skull, what conclusions might they make of us 2025 folk.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929707610337
I was talking about the biology, specifically the morphology, of the issue. Not how academia and youtubers alike are “retarded” 
Ok, didn’t catch this bit of detail in previous articles. The newest studies place Neanderthals and Denisovans on the same branch with Sapiens being more distance when analyzed based on nuclear DNA, but place Sapiens and Neanderthals on the same branch with Denisovans being the out group when analyzed based on mitochondrial DNA.
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