Why Are We The Only Humans Left?
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Look around and you’ll meet some pretty smart animals, but there’s no species quitelike us.But that wasn’t always true.As recently as 50,000 years ago we walked the planet along with at least three otherhuman species.Denisovans and real-life Hobbits Homo floresiensis didn’t leave much behind to know them by,but Neanderthals are a different story.A richer story.The first people to hold Neanderthal skulls didn’t know what to make of them, untilCharles Darwin published his theory of evolution.Like every living thing, modern humans must have descended from an earlier species, andlots of scientists thought Neanderthals fit the bill: our primitive, slightly dim-wittedancestor.Ernst Haeckel even tried to name them Homo stupidus.Other scientists had different ideas, they ...
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Look around and you’ll meet some pretty smart animals, but there’s no species quitelike us.But that wasn’t always true.As recently as 50,000 years ago we walked the planet along with at least three otherhuman species.Denisovans and real-life Hobbits Homo floresiensis didn’t leave much behind to know them by,but Neanderthals are a different story.A richer story.The first people to hold Neanderthal skulls didn’t know what to make of them, untilCharles Darwin published his theory of evolution.Like every living thing, modern humans must have descended from an earlier species, andlots of scientists thought Neanderthals fit the bill: our primitive, slightly dim-wittedancestor.Ernst Haeckel even tried to name them Homo stupidus.Other scientists had different ideas, they ...
