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Anthropology

Squinch

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2. I often wonder if these extinct species that lived with modern humans for tens of thousands

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Feb 12, 2020, 08:31 PM

Feb 2020

of years are the reason that we humans have such a self-destructive need to classify some people as "other."

And we are the only surviving one of the species. What did we do to them?

(I did 23 and me and found I have a really high percentage of Neanderthal. Makes me wonder what went on.)

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Scientists find evidence of 'ghost population' of ancient humans [View all] Eugene Feb 2020 OP

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