Ya gotta go where the fossils are not where they aren’t. Can you dig it?
Ya gotta go where the fossils are not where they aren’t.
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This.
Look where today’s agricultural human enclaves are. They are near water. Most of Africa is dessert, and doesn’t support human life.
Humans went through such rapid evolutionary changes because the population densities of their agricultural enclaves fostered kill-offs from viral epidemics.
The best record of this fact doesn’t lie in fossilized bones, but in our own biochemistry. And it SCREAMS epidemic.