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thinking about how when my sediments were just settling 4km beneath the weddell sea there were *at least* SEVEN species of hominin living their lives in the opposite hemisphere

reading about history of our genus always makes me emotional. like i work in the pleistocene, but on the only continent with no native human population. and it’s easy to forget that at the same time our ancestors were doing their own thing regardless of what was going on at the poles. time feels so different between the two but it really isn’t