The One-Line Evolution Picture Erased the Human Species That Lived Beside Us

Biology textbooks often open with a row of figures: an ape bent over, a human standing up, and a modern person at the end of the line. From the first classroom onward, students are taught to read that row as our evolutionary path.

Biology textbooks often open with a row of figures: an ape bent over, a human standing up, and a modern person at the end of the line. From the first classroom onward, students are taught to read that row as our evolutionary path.

Biology textbooks often open with a row of figures: an ape bent over, a human standing up, and a modern person at the end of the line. From the first classroom onward, students are taught to read that row as our evolutionary path.

Biology textbooks often open with a row of figures: an ape bent over, a human standing up, and a modern person at the end of the line. From the first classroom onward, students are taught to read that row as our evolutionary path.