Dr. Chris Stringer & the Origin of our Species
Let's start with a few "big questions" : How do you define your position in this world and your journey in evolution, with respect to other primates? Who have been our nearest "cousins" in this long evolutionary journey of ours? Who were the Neanderthals? Did they fight with the archaic sapiens, or did they marry and inter-breed? Was there ever a Neanderthal-Sapiens war? Are Neanderthal traits still alive among some of us, or have they completely disappeared? These were some of the questions that I (and all of us at Speaking Archaeologically) were pondering about, the day we sat to listen to Dr. Chris Stringer. I held a copy of his book "The Origin of Our Species" firmly in my hand, going through all the scribbled pages and little notes tucked in between printed words. "Changing Landscape of Evolutionary History of Upper Palaeolithic Hominins": read the title of Dr. Stringer's lecture. Some of the initial questions that he laid ou...