What's the weirdest thing our ancestors ever did? It's hard to tell.

Ancestors: everybody's got 'em. What did these ancestors of ours do?

1. Back when they were Homo erectus, our ancestors started migrating from _______. (It was a long trip to Brighton.)
2. Our most recent common ancestor was a lady named Mitochondrial _____, 120,000-150,000 years ago. Remember to send her a Mother's Day card.
3. Scientists suspect Cro-Magnons sometimes married (okay, maybe they didn't have a licence) _____________, at least in Europe and Asia.
4. According to that great source of scientific information, the Daily Mirror, a fuzzy rhinoceros from Siberia may be the origin of the human belief in ________.
5. Back in the day, if your neighbour invited you to a flintknapping party, what should you probably bring along?
6. If your South American Pleistocene ancestors were hunting a Glyptodon, they needed a party. (The thing was about as big as a VW Bug.) What relative of the Glyptodon might you have run over on a road in Texas?
7. Do you have relatives in Sussex? If so, they might enjoy this. 500,000 years ago, what might they have been doing if an elephant came along?
8. What is unusual about Britain between 180,000 and 60,000 years ago? (No, the M1 wasn't closed.)
9. Were your Mesolithic British ancestors cannibals?
10. Why did Craig Dent of Melbourne, Australia, travel to Cheddar in Somerset?

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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