Are we relapsing? Are today's males less important, not needed, excepting fertilization? Marriage is down; sperm banks; choosiness among females; govt social support.

Post-modern humans are not a great argument for a post-religious humanity. E.g. Russia v. Ukraine, US Congress. Has socialism or communism lived up to what's preached?

Maybe get it right second time around? ;)

19th C: cranial variation; 20th C: bones; 21st C genome...until cranial variation re-arises in 2020s.

It's amazing that human ev/origins began with cranial variation in the 19th C, went on to bones, then genomes, and now it's back to cranial variation.

Maybe we should better recognize and appreciate, and adapt to, the emotions we have inherited. Maybe it's best to realize that it's useless to count on good while denying the bad. Design policies that align with reality.

Soul is a convenient fiction, a construct. Self-consciousness is something achieved with age, at maybe three? and some animals seem to understand that in the mirror is themselves, not another beast; is that self-consciousness? Maybe. All are evolutionary products.

True. Does that mean we shouldn't study what can be studied?

From a stock photo, here's a braided stream
<img src="https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/1-braided-river-dr-juerg-aleanscience-photo-library.jpg" alt="Braided River #1 by Science Photo Library"/>

There is some glitch above: "to find" what? One gathers "archaic" here means Neandertal and Denisovan. Erectus, too? Probably not. By looking at SNPs not found in African genomes, but found in archaic and non-African AMH...something is found; what?

Long ago a commission of experts from a wide spectrum would have been impaneled to report on what happened. Yes, we had a trial, but in such a state of high emotion that objectivity is doubtful. As with JFK's assassination, perhaps certainty is out of reach. But we've not tried to get truth.