2926789 while these humans were evolving in Asia &

Q&@
EUROPE,
EVOLUTION IN
EAST AFRICA DID
NOT STOP: THE CRADLE
OF HUMANITY CONTINUED TO NURTURE
NUMEROUS NEW SPECIES, SUCH AS HOMO
RUDOLFENSIS, 'Man from Lake Rudolf', homo ergaster,
'working man', & eventually our own species, which we've
immodestly named homo 'Sapiens', 'wise man'? The members of some
of these species were massive & others were dwarves! Some were fearsome hunters
and others meek plant gatherers?! Some live only on a single island, while many roamed over continents!?
But all of them belonged to the genus HOMO! They were foremost & after all human beings? It's a common fallacy
to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting the Neanderthals, and the Neanderthals evolving into ùs?! This linear model gives the mistaken impression that at any particular moment only òne type of human inhabited the earth, and that all earlier species were merely older models of ourselves. But the truth is that from about 2 million years ago untill 10.000 years ago, the wòrld wàs home, at one and the same time, to several human species! And why not? Today there are many species of foxes, bears & pigs! The earth of a hundred millennia ago wàs walked upon by at least six different species of man!
It's our current exclusivity, not that multi-species past, that is peculiar - & perhaps incriminating?
As we will shortly see, and basically already know, wé 'sápiens' have good
reasons to repress the memory of our siblings.
The question is when the
next extinctions
start.
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