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476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history (www.earth.com)

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476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history

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[–] grue 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Considering the fact that we interbred with H. neanderthalensis and H. denisova (and still carry the residual DNA to prove it), I think it's pretty well proven that considering only H. sapiens to be "human" is overly narrow.

Personally, I would argue that anything within the Homo genus is human by definition (that's what the word means!), and that anything non-human belongs in a genus like Australopithecus or Paranthropus instead.