Random Thoughts — 01

Paleogenomics has revolutionized our understanding of human evolution.

It tells us that we didn’t kill the Neanderthals, we absorbed them. They is us.

The Neanderthal woman nicknamed Nana, reconstructed at the Gibraltar Museum, with feathers

So, I read a story here on Medium where the writer talked about the innate “killer nature” of humanity as evidenced by the fact that we are the last surviving hominid species. His implication was that we must have killed off our nine cousins. If we are…