The spread was so fast that it is hard to believe that archaic humans put up any resistance at all, really.
It is almost as if they were talked into their graves, reasoned into their graves by more enlightened humans than they, went extinct voluntarily without a struggle, acknowledged they were obsolete.
Hardly even any evidence of his favorite ancient human process, mixing. No mixing here, between archaic humans, who had been there for almost 2 million years, with modern humans. Just an abrupt quiet early and welcome grave, to hear Reich recount it.
He makes it sound like a brief and peaceful liberal transition to modernity. David Reich, p. 191.
I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.
I will tell you a different story, a darker story, anon.
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