NICHOLAS R. LONGRICH: In the modern human origin story of evolution, there’s no defining moment of creation. Instead, humans emerged gradually, generation by generation, from earlier species… As with any other complex adaptation – a bird’s wing, a whale’s fluke, our own fingers – our humanity evolved step by step, over millions of years. Mutations … Continue reading US AND THEM: Would we still see ourselves as ‘Human’ if other Hominin species hadn’t gone extinct?