You're listening to Brainson, where we're serious about being curious.

Brainson is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Hey you! yes you, tired of the same old, same old, looking for something new under the sun?

Have you seen humans and thought,

Is that all there is?

Well have I got a treat for you.

Get ready for other humans.

Why stick to one flavor of human when you can taste the tree, the family tree that is?

Tired of boring old homo sapiens, try homo neandertolences.

Neanderthals are like homoiens, funky fresh, super-distant cousins.

These hardy humans were stocky, muscular, roamed around parts of Europe and they go great

with a waffle cone.

Or want something extra cold?

Try Homo Denisova.

This variety of human lived in chilly places like Siberia,

the Tibetan Plateau, and across Asia.

Break me off a piece of that tasty treat.

Humans, now in more flavors.

You might be saying, wait, are they actually talking about eating humans, or do they mean eating fossils?

What's going on here?

To which we say, who knows?

This is just a metaphor that we've stretched so thin it's about to snap.

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