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If you haven't read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari, it is a great read and has lots of insights into the way early Homo sapiens may have behaved. Hint: we won, probably not by accident...

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> Hint: we won, probably not by accident...

I've always thought that if there ever were another intelligent species on this planet, then we very likely wiped them out.

Enjoyable read but, as a sacrifice for being entertaining, it sometimes falls into the wayside of hasty sensationalist conclusions.

I agree. There were several times that it made a statement like "Early homo sapiens likely killed off Neanderthals. AND IF WE DON'T CHANGE, WE WILL WIPE OUT ALL HUMANITY WITHIN A GENERATION." The bias showed a little too strongly in places.

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