No giant leap for mankind: why we've been looking at human evolution in the wrong way

Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 08:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Understanding exactly how and why humans evolved is clearly one of the most important goals in science. But despite a significant amount of research to date, these questions have remained a bit of a mystery. Of course, there is no shortage of theories – it has even been suggested that humans are just visiting aliens. However, most of the credible models tend to take something that is unique to humans – such as language – and show how all the other bits of being human derive from that.

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