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Our siblings, according to speculative reconstructions: Homo rudolfensis (East Africa); Homo erectus (East Asia); and Homo neanderthalensis (Europe and western Asia). All are humans. {© Visual/Corbis.}
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
I had no idea how wild the story of human evolution was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.
Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically wiping everyone else out.
From the tribe of 1k-10k modern humans... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comJust as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
#FossilFriday H. sapiens lineage skulls (from L) Irhoud 1, Omo Kibish 2+1, Herto 1 (all Africa), Qafzeh 6 (Israel), Mungo 3, Kow Swamp 1 (Australia) @NHM_London @NHM_Anthro https://t.co/Cea5zqXxo5
It turned out that 1–4 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern populations in the Middle East and Europe is Neanderthal DNA.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
David Reich – How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
youtube.comNew genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’ | Royal Society Open Science 2016 https://t.co/ABXa3PbfkX
Chris Stringerx.comHow long did Neanderthals and modern humans co-exist in Europe? Evidence is growing it may have been at least 10,000 years https://t.co/DBomsqAuKF via @ConversationUK
Chris Stringerx.com
On the edge of the then-inhabited world, with huge climate changes, Britain probably had at least 10 separate human colonisations by at least 4 different species..From Britain: one million years of the human story (Dinnis & Stringer) https://t.co/RIuLr4tz8f