Episode Transcript: JRQE #3 - Duncan Trussell
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Yeah, it certainly is possible when you look at the fossil record
and you look at this Homo floresiensis, this hobbit man from Indonesia,
when you look at the stories of this thing called the Orang Pendek,
which is another supposed small hobbit-like furry creature that's running around,
and then you hear the stories about these Gigantopithecus creatures that used to exist as recently as 100,000 years ago.
Yes.
You start going, okay, well, there seems to have been a lot of different kinds of primates.
Then, of course, is that Russian ancestor of human beings that's found really recently
that 41,000 years ago was a completely different type of human,
was not a Neanderthal, was not a Homo sapien.
It was something totally different.
Yeah.
And that's 40,000 years ago.
So, it seems like as scientists accumulate more and more evidence,
they're finding that there was a broad variety of primates
that branched off in a bunch of different chains,
and it very well could have been that there's more than one intelligent one,