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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Humanity’s Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals Scientific American Homo sapiens 11 Oct, 2024 | 789 words | ★★★ ☆ ☆ At the heart of scientific questions about the origins of humanity lie questions of human nature. Are Homo sapiens intrinsically lovers or fighters, predators or prey, lucky survivors or inevitable conquerors? The friendlier answers to those queries keep coming, seen in a spate of genetic findings and some recent fossil discoveries. They also underline how tough life was for our prehistoric ancestors. Despite the eight billion people on Earth today, and counting, just surviving was winning for most of humanity’s history. Not everyone did. Only 200,000 years ago, our ancestors lived on a planet teeming with varied human relatives: Neandertals lived in Europe and ………………………………