Why Our Nearest Living Relatives Are Chimps And Bonobos – OpEd

On September 2, 2003 there was a once-in-a-generation discovery of a tiny human-like skull encased in 6-meter (19.7-foot) deep sediment in Liang Bua, a large cave in the highlands of the Indonesian island of Flores. Initial dating of carbon in the sediment determined the remains to be 18,000 years old. The date was revised in...