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Originally Posted by AstroViking
From what I can recall, there have been 6 or so 'human-like' species on the planet. It's just that ours survived and out-evolved the others.
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I think the number may be nearer 20. I love studying this stuff. We go back a long way but as each month passes and new research hits the deck the picture becomes less clear.
What I find fascinating is the time Neanderthals existed...years ago they were presented as rather unintelligent but clearly that has been changing and now it is clear they were very clever to have survived for as long as they did...and you really need to put that in a context that they were primarily meat eaters with a much higher calorie requirement than ( us?) other early humans ... that means they would be hunting non stop although one really does not know... maybe they knocked over a few mamoths every couple of months and spent the rest of the time doing astronomy....
Then they went extinct and I bet, although pure speculation, we hunted them as food..there have been Neanderthal bones found with "cut" marks associated with butchery and they got the blame... I expect anything that moved way back was food slow food would have been fast food and we like fast food.
Alex