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It's time for a hominid family reunion, and anthropologists Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Schwartz have brought the scrapbook. Extinct Humans is both an album of knowledge of our ancestors and closely related species and a theoretical reconsideration of the fossil evidence. Tattersall and Schwartz suggest that many more human species existed than we previously thought, and that many of them existed contemporaneously until about 25,000 years ago. Profusely illustrated, the book makes its case well, showing and discussing the evidence and proposing a family history that pulls all the fossils and theories together into a testable whole. The authors have personally investigated every available hominid specimen, and the depth of their knowledge is staggering at times--but their obsession is enlightening and entertaining.

One of the emotional arguments against evolution is that "Damn it! We're not evolved from apes!"

But what if there were other beings around that were almost as highly evolved as us ... or maybe moreso in some ways?

If God created all of these human-like beings, but only gave souls to some of them. Or maybe gave souls to all of them, but allowed all but one species to go extinct ...

Oh well, you get where this Pandora's box is opening ...

The point is, I think, that only “modern humans” are in fact, human.

Other species are not human.

But I recognize each generation of scientists makes up new theories (treated as fact) debunking the theories of the last generation of scientists (treated in their day as fact).

Heck... scientists generate the “facts” so I guess they can take a hoe and call it a shovel if they want.