Practice question · Fill in the blanks
Complete the statement about our species’ situation.
Homo sapiens appears in Africa by roughly ______ years ago; most people outside Africa carry a ______ Neanderthal inheritance; and being the only living human species is a ______ anomaly.
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Hints
- The three facts concern our age, our ancestry and our solitude.
- Being the only surviving hominin is a very recent condition.
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Homo sapiens appears in Africa by roughly 300,000 years ago; most people outside Africa carry a 1–4% Neanderthal inheritance; and being the only living human species is a recent anomaly.
Why
Three facts that together dismantle human exceptionalism: we are older than people think, we are partly them, and our solitude is brand new.
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