Picture the world sixty thousand years ago. The first light of dawn cuts across a landscape that is at once familiar, and yet, profoundly wild. This is the Late Pleistocene, an age not yet ruled by us, but by a diverse family of hominids scattered across continents teeming with mammoths and saber-toothed cats.
Across Africa, our own ancestors, Homo sapiens, moved in tight-knit bands through ri...
