Mindy Weisberger (she/her) on Nostr: When our species first appeared, we had lots of hominin company! But all other ...

When our species first appeared, we had lots of hominin company! But all other ancient human species eventually vanished—even Neanderthals and Denisovans, with whom we interbred—leaving us as the only surviving Homo lineage.

I talked to paleoanthropologist Will Harcourt-Smith (CUNY, AMNH) and bioarchaeologist Elizabeth Sawchuk (CMNH) to understand how H. sapiens survived while all of our relatives went extinct.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/why-did-homo-sapiens-outlast-all-other-human-species

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