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The Human Story: How We Got Here and Why We Survived.

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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How Do You Identify, Compare, Classify Cani?

It's very rare for us to find complete skeletons. More often than not we find teeth, bones and fragments of those. We have to go spend a lot of time trying to identify it to species. There's lots of new techniques that we can use now but at the very fundamental level, it's its basic vertebrate paleontology. So identifying, comparing, classifying cani. A, and our ancestry probably goes back to a common ancestor, maybe 600 thousand years agodaniel.

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