"Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps already living in Europe while we emerged in Africa... In other words, we are an improbable and fragile entity, fortunately successful after precarious beginnings as a small population in Africa, not the predictable end result of a global tendency. We are a thing, an item of history, not an embodiment of general principles."
-- Stephen Jay Gould (paleontologist & evolutionary biologist, 1941-2002)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould
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