There's something genuinely humbling about realising how directly connected we are to all the hominins that came before us. Not just as a vague evolutionary chain, but as overlapping populations that met, mixed, had children together, and left traces of themselves in our DNA. Neanderthals are still in us. So are the Denisovans. That's not a metaphor — it's measurable. And that's what drew me into this subject. Over the past few months, I've been digging into the story of human origins — trying to stay as close as possible to actual scientific papers rather than YouTube videos or oversimplified timelines. The deeper you go, the more interesting and messier things get. Dates shift. Research teams disagree. And some of the most widely shared "facts" online simply don't hold up. I'll be honest about how this was built. The data was collected through AI-assisted deep search across recent research papers — not a manual literature review, but structured...
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