尼安德特人的奇异起源

Are Neanderthals descendants of modern humans? Michael Marshall takes a look at a radical idea that could rewrite our history AMONG the human species that once inhabited Earth, the Neanderthals are the most famous. They lived relatively recently, and in many ways, they were like us. However, we don’t have a good account of their origins. In fact, how they evolved and who their ancestors were is one of the biggest mysteries in human evolution. That’s not to say there aren’t plausible family trees out there, but each throws up questions we can’t answer with the evidence we have, whether it is from bones or from genes. …