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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I thought the book was interesting for both the ancient history it did present of our species, but also for the speculative questions it posed had things turned out differently.
For example:
With the history of discord between sapiens of varying pigmentation our species has, can you imagine living harmoniously in a world of multiple homo species? And what does this say about our ability to transcend our animal nature?
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Thirty to 40 percent of the world's human population has Neanderthal genomes in them. While that fact does not necessarily imply that there are some humans in the world with a majority of Neanderthal, rather than
homo sapiens, in them, it comes mighty close to implying that. And I feel sure that there is some empirical data out there somewhere which would confirm that. So for some of us MobileReaders "our species" probably is, well, other than
homo sapiens. Of course, I'm sure that I have no Neanderthal in me, however.
