There was a temptation for people to say, you know, my source s better than yours. Why? It's more informative than yours. And that was an error, and it continues to be an error. These are parallel streams of information, and they relate to each other. You have to continue with straightforward, old fashioned palianthropology, king at the bones. But the temptation to crash into a party and say, hey, i've got this new tool now, and it's going to fix everything. I think a lot of genet there's some, some people did do that. We started thinking the andertals were this entirely separate branch, then we moved towards a
When scientists examined the DNA of ancient bones found near a Himalayan lake, they were forced to confront a seemingly impossible conclusion. This episode originally ran on March 24, 2021.
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