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Bioanthbros...
>>15002430
According to the 1000 genomes project the farthest extent of modern human populations feature an equivalent degree of nucleotide diversity as do chimps and bonobos. This is also not accounting for the various phenotypic and genotypic factors that primatologists often cite as being indicators of paniscus and troglodytes being seperate species without going into much detail including height, weight, skin pigmentation etc. It's not like this doesn't exist as an anomaly either, there are countless examples in biology of the requirements for speciation being shockingly few, but chimps and bonobos are the most prominent example since they are our closest extant references, but make no mistake they are not the greatest biological example of this either, such as the fucking countless examples of insects who display the most minor of variation being categorised as a seperate species, but make of that what you will. The point is that within the taxonomic record, and even when applied to great apes, there are an untold amount of precedence to indicate human populations such as SSA and NE are a seperate species, and in actually it's mostly just SSA that serves as the outlier, plotting the furthest away from any other extant human populations on earth on a PCA.
>>14994549
The examples in the OP are bone clones, industry standard in terms of osteological and paleoanthropological representations. The ones in the op represent an amalgamation of the features you would typically associate with the individual populations featured, they don't represent individuals, but they represent phenotypic trends.