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Perhaps, but perhaps a group of Homo Sapien Sapiens who followed them. All going to say that it’s complicated and we know very little, though certainly more than we knew 100 years ago.

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Then we have these guys hanging out in Georgia 1.8 million years ago:

Stranger In A New Land

Image: JOHN GURCHE PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER With a brain half the size of a modern one and a brow reminiscent of Homo habilis, this hominid is one of the most primitive members of our genus on record. Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed this 1.75-million-year-old explorer from a nearly complete teenage H. erectus skull and associated mandible found in Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. The background figures derive from two partial crania recovered at the site.