Beth Shapiro
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Like Bigfoot is supposed to be in North America.
Yeah, so it could have come across.
Early to middle Pleistocene in China.
That was super interesting.
And I wonder, you know, if these populations were there, they're there at the same time as Denisovans were there and Neanderthals were there.
If they could have hybridized with humans, they probably would.
Well, it was thought for a long time that orangutans were our closest living relative as well.
Learning and being able to communicate is one of the ways that we got the advantage over everything else, right?
Because I don't have to evolve the ability to cook dinner.
And you don't have to learn because there's DoorDash.
You don't need sentient AI to do that.