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Burley contends that what is true for individual human beings must also be true for humanity as a whole, and therefore that at the level of human species as well, the knowledge of what is less universal comes before the knowledge of what is more universal (cf. fol. 10rb).
The new discoveries in Spain add to the mounting evidence that human prehistory was a complicated period with a diverse cast of human species.
The problem is lack of evidence, for fossils of human species other than sapiens are incredibly rare.
Those figures of human species (usually males, who become increasingly hairless and light-skinned) marching boldly across the page have illustrated our evolution in many popular articles, but they have wrongly enshrined the view that evolution was simply a progression leading to us, its pinnacle and final achievement.
By the same token, evidence for the diversity of human species through time has been downplayed, first by the cultural inertia of stories of an upwards progression towards the human state; second, by the curious chance that Homo sapiens happens to be the only species of human around today - a situation probably unprecedented in 7m years.
Only 69.9% of students considered Africa the origin of human species.
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With the exception of humans, species are important but individuals are not.
"As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight".
Athens and Rome had Athenians or Romans but not "men", in the sense of members of the human species.
"We start with the principle that each of these eggs is an individual member of the human species," said Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee.
"Bipedal locomotion or two-legged walking is one of the hallmarks of the human species.
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