Dr. Genevieve von Petzinger

But what makes humans so fascinating is somewhere between the lines and the zigzags and the little cross hatchings and stuff, we go from that to three different places that

on three different continents, like Europe, we've got in Indonesia and we've got in Australia, suddenly they're all making animals.

Like what the heck happened?

It's a black hole.

We have no idea what happened in there.

We don't know where it happened, and we don't know what happened.

But somewhere we went from nobody drew animals to suddenly somewhere... And again, because it comes out of nowhere, it's very unlikely that multiple groups of people all simultaneously decided after hundreds of thousands of years to just start drawing animals, right?

So somewhere...

probably before our own ancestors left Africa or quite recently after they did.

Because again, for people who don't know, we're descended, about 7 billion people alive today are descended from about 10,000 people.

So we're really closely related.

And so again, same culture group, same language, probably took what they could do.

So we don't know where it happened.

But somewhere, humans went in their own direction, which again, is not surprising.

We're our own species.

We're doing our thing.

But that doesn't mean that Neanderthals or Denisovans are not just as cool.

It's called the Trinil.

Yeah, the Trinil.

And it's a zigzag.