Would we still see ourselves as ‘human’ if other hominin species hadn’t gone extinct?
What looks like a bright, sharp dividing line between humans and other animals is really an artefact of extinction.
Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist from Kodiak, Alaska, currently based at the University of Bath. I'm interested in how the world came to be and why it's the way it is, and not some other way.
What looks like a bright, sharp dividing line between humans and other animals is really an artefact of extinction.