Dr. Henry Gee

And that was true in Australopithecus. We know this from some amazing work on strontium isotopes in bones, which I won't go into. But it's also true in humans and Neanderthals. So you need that interbreeding. Clans would often meet, I guess, at times of festival to drink and swap stories and worship the great gods and also have marriage ceremonies and choose mates, and then they would move around.

And that was true in Australopithecus. We know this from some amazing work on strontium isotopes in bones, which I won't go into. But it's also true in humans and Neanderthals. So you need that interbreeding. Clans would often meet, I guess, at times of festival to drink and swap stories and worship the great gods and also have marriage ceremonies and choose mates, and then they would move around.

But when you get to a point in Europe when there were lots and lots and lots of modern human groups and not many Neanderthal groups, the Neanderthal groups were effectively cut off. from other Neanderthal groups. So there are only two things to do, which is become extinct or interbreed with the humans. So that seems to have been the case.

But when you get to a point in Europe when there were lots and lots and lots of modern human groups and not many Neanderthal groups, the Neanderthal groups were effectively cut off. from other Neanderthal groups. So there are only two things to do, which is become extinct or interbreed with the humans. So that seems to have been the case.

But when you get to a point in Europe when there were lots and lots and lots of modern human groups and not many Neanderthal groups, the Neanderthal groups were effectively cut off. from other Neanderthal groups. So there are only two things to do, which is become extinct or interbreed with the humans. So that seems to have been the case.

It's a similar story in the rest of the world, although not nearly so well documented. It is known that humans met Denisovans and Denisovans met Neanderthals in Eastern Asia. And the same thing happened that the only the Denisovans survive today in a small percentage of DNA, mostly of people who live in Eastern and Southeastern Asia.

It's a similar story in the rest of the world, although not nearly so well documented. It is known that humans met Denisovans and Denisovans met Neanderthals in Eastern Asia. And the same thing happened that the only the Denisovans survive today in a small percentage of DNA, mostly of people who live in Eastern and Southeastern Asia.

It's a similar story in the rest of the world, although not nearly so well documented. It is known that humans met Denisovans and Denisovans met Neanderthals in Eastern Asia. And the same thing happened that the only the Denisovans survive today in a small percentage of DNA, mostly of people who live in Eastern and Southeastern Asia.

Papua New Guinea is a very good stronghold of modern Denisovan DNA, which is, you know, Who knows? It was just the lottery of life. The other little ones, like the hobbits, were probably driven to extinction by humans taking over their range, their resources.

Papua New Guinea is a very good stronghold of modern Denisovan DNA, which is, you know, Who knows? It was just the lottery of life. The other little ones, like the hobbits, were probably driven to extinction by humans taking over their range, their resources.

Papua New Guinea is a very good stronghold of modern Denisovan DNA, which is, you know, Who knows? It was just the lottery of life. The other little ones, like the hobbits, were probably driven to extinction by humans taking over their range, their resources.

Now, it's an interesting thing that the hobbits of Flores probably disappeared at about the same time that modern humans arrived there in Flores. And I have this kind of fanciful notion that folk tales of little people living in the mountains are probably folk memories of previous hominins.

Now, it's an interesting thing that the hobbits of Flores probably disappeared at about the same time that modern humans arrived there in Flores. And I have this kind of fanciful notion that folk tales of little people living in the mountains are probably folk memories of previous hominins.

Now, it's an interesting thing that the hobbits of Flores probably disappeared at about the same time that modern humans arrived there in Flores. And I have this kind of fanciful notion that folk tales of little people living in the mountains are probably folk memories of previous hominins.

Now, this is just me being completely fanciful, but I'm, as you know, a great fan of Tolkien, so I think that all the folk tales of elves, dwarves, leprechauns... the little people that lived here before us might have been a distant folk memory of other hominins that lived in the landscape before we arrived.

Now, this is just me being completely fanciful, but I'm, as you know, a great fan of Tolkien, so I think that all the folk tales of elves, dwarves, leprechauns... the little people that lived here before us might have been a distant folk memory of other hominins that lived in the landscape before we arrived.

Now, this is just me being completely fanciful, but I'm, as you know, a great fan of Tolkien, so I think that all the folk tales of elves, dwarves, leprechauns... the little people that lived here before us might have been a distant folk memory of other hominins that lived in the landscape before we arrived.

But by 50,000 years ago, all the hominins that had ever lived, and there were many different kinds, had died out except ours.

But by 50,000 years ago, all the hominins that had ever lived, and there were many different kinds, had died out except ours.

But by 50,000 years ago, all the hominins that had ever lived, and there were many different kinds, had died out except ours.