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IFLScience The Big Questions: Why Are We The Only Surviving Human Species?

And what happened to the others?

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Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

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Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.

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It's just us left, but how did we get here?

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Homo sapiens – us – are the only surviving human species. The question, and it is a big one, is why? Who were the species that came before us, or lived alongside us, and what happened to them?

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Host Dr Alfredo Carpineti is joined by Professor Chris Stringer, human evolution research lead at the Natural History Museum, London, to explore the journey that we and the other human species took to end up here.

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHEDJune 27, 2024

Written by Dr. Alfredo Carpineti

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