Jeremy DeSilva, paleoanthropologist: «Humans are slow and weak. Only altruism prevented our extinction.”

More than 3.6 million years ago, a volcanic eruption covered the landscape of Laetoli, in northern Tanzania, with ash. The footprints of ostriches, giraffes and hyenas were engraved on the ground, but also the oldest ones of a member of our…

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