.” ’s not a o  ion t you’ve got a feive areas for Rift Valley in Africa and Mungo ralia, and very little in bet’s notsurprising t paleontologists rouble connecting ts.”

    traditional to explain s—and till accepted by ty of people in t  ed of us,  as soon astime, as ttledin different regions, ts furto distinctive types—into Java Manand Peking Man in Asia, and halensis inEurope.

    ter, liture—tors of every one of us alive today—arose on tingouto t predecessors. Quite ter of disputation. No signs of slaug autiesbelieve tcompeted tors may alsoributed. “Pers tattersall. “telling. tainty is t we are .”

    t modern  ourselves,curiously enoug almost any ot is odd indeed, as tattersallnotes, “t t recent major event in ion—t obscure of all.” Nobody can even quite agree  at about120,000 years ago in t t not everyone accepts t tattersall and Sczmaintain t “ our species still as definitiveclarification.”

    t undisputed appearance of ern Mediterranean, aroundmodern-day Israel,  even trinkaus and S-to-classify and poorlyknoals ablisype of tool kitknoerian, o borrow.

    No Neandertal remains  tool kits turn up allover t aken te. It is also kno Neandertals and modern ed in some fasens of t. “e don’t knoime-sually lived side by side,” tattersall says, but tinued o use Neandertal tools—y. No lesscuriously, Acools are found in t scarcely exist in Europe until just 300,000 years ago. Again, ake tools ery.

    For a long time, it  tals before tinent,eventually forcing to