[HN Gopher] The curse of Toumai: an ancient skull and a bitter f...
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The curse of Toumai: an ancient skull and a bitter feud over
humanity's origins
Author : benbreen
Score : 9 points
Date : 2025-06-12 21:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
| dd_xplore wrote:
| When humanity (including all the homo species) gained
| intelligence over 2-300000 years ago, I'm genuinely surprised
| that they were able to live so long together!
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| Although 'species' is term is bit extreme, which is why they
| reproduced with each other a lot!
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| I also wonder what kind of history they might have! It's
| interesting to think about. Most of the history that we have is
| already opinionated....
| ldjkfkdsjnv wrote:
| the big secret is that modern humans are hybrids of different
| types of prehistoric populations. those populations were far more
| distinct than we are now. this hybridization explains large
| variances in human behavior across geographies
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