Ella Al-Shamahi

Would that have been complicated?

Would the mother have been terrified for that child?

Would she have been like, oh, I hope they look like my species and not the other species because I don't know how...

I was like, it is absolutely within our right to ask these questions.

We shouldn't be giving answers unless we know for sure.

But we can be speculating within the realms of what we know of anthropology and ethnography.

And it was really interesting.

And everyone accepted it.

And we went for it.

And it's really interesting to see the feedback from people.

Because people are like, oh, there are us, aren't they?

I mean, if you've got Homo naledi burying their dead, I'm sorry, we can be talking about whether hybrid Neanderthal or Homo sapien kids felt that they belonged or not in a tribe.

Yeah, I'm comfortable with that discussion.

There is a little bit of a discussion about the exact date, but yes, yes.

There is very clear evidence of Homo sapiens in Europe.

And we were kind of in some of the same geographies.

And then we just disappear from Europe.

But the Neanderthals don't.

Now, we do know that the climate was getting quite difficult.

But, you know, the Neanderthals weren't exactly having a heyday either.