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esrauch on June 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is there only one human species?

Don't you think it's surprising that some pocket of non-homo sapien humans didn't manage to survive on some remote island without getting found until at least after reasonable boats were invented (~5000 years ago).

parfe on June 24, 2011 [–]

Without reasonable boats how would the other species reach the island?

esrauch on June 24, 2011 | [–]

I was thinking of an island with a land bridge that existed 100,000 years ago.

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