100,00 years ago there were several different species of humans on Earth, and now we, Homo sapiens, are the only ones left. But why? "I think luck is definitely part of it", suggests Christ Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London. He hypothesises that our cumulative advantages such as our lighter built skeleton and the development of complexity of culture enabled Homo sapiens enables to outlive all other humans. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535311-300
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100,00 years ago there were several different species of humans on Earth, and now we, Homo sapiens, are the only ones left. But why? "I think luck is definitely part of it", suggests Christ Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London. He hypothesises that our cumulative advantages such as our lighter built skeleton and the development of complexity of culture enabled Homo sapiens enables to outlive all other humans. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26535311-300
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