Business Maverick: Neanderthals Should Join Homo Sapiens on the Family Tree

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Business Maverick: Neanderthals Should Join Homo Sapiens on the Family Tree By Bloomberg

And therein lies the terminology problem. “Modern humans” has long implied a group of people that look like us, with our distinct rounded skulls, small jaws and chins. And also implies our single, direct ancestral lineage.

It’s not universally agreed upon that those early people in Greece were all that much like us. The fossil in question – a part of a skull – was found in the 1970s and showed the rounded shape more like people today than like Neanderthals or Denisovans. New technology allowed researchers to finally get their surprisingly early date.

There’s that term again. “It makes them seem more like people,” Hawks said of Neanderthals. Should we just call them all “people” till we get that figured out?

 

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