(A look at the bookends of human history)

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There’s news this week about the first human. And the last. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is gonna be hard to write about in just 800 words, which is all the words I can pay myself to write. (It’s rent week.)

Let’s deal with the first, first. Deep in a South African cave, a foraging herd of scientists who really had no business being in a South African cave discovered a pile of bones. Sure, I know what you’re thinking … What a full, madc...