Remember that short guy down the path that you met just a few years ago...

[oldcynic]

A primitive type of human, once thought to be up to three million years old, actually lived much more recently, a study suggests.
The remains of 15 partial skeletons belonging to the species Homo naledi were described in 2015.
They were found deep in a cave system in South Africa by a team led by Lee Berger from Wits University.
In an interview, he now says the remains are probably just 200,000 to 300,000 years old.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39710315

[Warpy]

1. One anthropology lecture online called them "two legged wolves,"

capable hunters who could move swiftly while carrying tools like sticks, rocks, and possibly spears. Their prey included other contemporary hominins and quite possibly each other from time to time. They had no couth but they were built to survive and thrive.

I'm not a bit surprised they werre around longer than earlier thought, especially now that h.Florensis is thought to be closely related to them and not us.

[oldcynic]

2. if they were "two-legged wolves", what were we?

Have they checked modern pygmy DNA against Floresiensis?

[Warpy]

3. Smarter.

That seems to have made all the difference in who survived to the present. Yes, Neanderthals were smart. We didn't slaughter them, we absorbed them.

[oldcynic]

4. Smarter? I beg to differ.

Sapiens can throw rocks further and kill more living things. The result is we face nuclear annihilation by two males still measuring their dicks against each other.