hominids

The disappearance (really, the admixture with other hominids) of pre-homo sapien hominids is fascinating to me.

We killed off all animals that could conceivably compete with us on intelligence (Neanderthals, various other hominids).

It had children with other hominids, and those children would have had half as much pig DNA.

A pristine wilderness is not a well founded concept, nor has it ever existed alongside hominids.

How do you define an emergence of a species when these hominids are always in a state of constant change?

Billions of years of evolution has created this species of hominids that travel in packs.

It's not impossible that this was a lineage of large-brained hominids, distinct from our own.

There's a possibility that this group of hominids killed each other in some kind of civil war or died in some drought.

Depending how far you want to go, Homosapiens have displaced other intelligent hominids.

Only Africa still has giant mammals probably because they co-evolved with hominids.

Any time any group of hominids has had an edge over another that they shared space with, it's pretty much resulted in subjugation or extermination.

How do you draw an org chart of the hominids then?

It wouldn't surprise me if earlier hominids were religious as well, but to call any other possibility "quite ridiculous" is really overstepping.

I'm sorry if I was unclear when I say "they." I mean "they" as in the hominids the article says "may have been smarter than us."

However, mentioning that athletic ability is genetically determined gets a heartfelt, "really, ya think??!" Alas, we are but a bunch of hominids scrambling in the dark in fear of the world in which we find ourselves.

Having descended from a long line of hominids you should be more suspicious of your brain when it comes up with ideas that it can rationalize as "making the world better" and just coincidentally happens to correspond to "seeking power and status."

Hominids picked up one stone, known as a core and broke it with another, known as a hammerstone or percussor.

Hominids have been using tools for a very long time.