OHS 2019 General questions

• What type of studies did you do?
• When did you decide to study human evolution?
• How much time did it take for you to finish the book?
• What is the scientific relevance of your book nowadays? Did you win any awards?
• You spent a lot of time analyzing data but did you also spend time on archeological digging sites?
• At what point did you feel like you're ready to write the book? To publish it?
• Was the study of human evolution an interest you had ever since you were young or did it come when you were older?
• Ever since you've published the book, were there any new discoveries that contradicts what you said in it? Or in the contrary, any additional information that you wish you could've added?
• Did you hide any easter eggs or memes in your book to better appeal to the youth?
• What was the most interesting part of making your book?
• Which extinction are you most sad about?
• What differs modern communication skills from any animal communication?
• Do you think some apes could evolve in homonins if their environment are too affected by climate change?
• What do you have to give to your university or other investors for financial support for a new project?
• Is enough being invested in science in our day and age?
• Is there a scientific use to archeology and to the betterment of society?
• What is your most prized accomplishment in the scientific community?
• What do you wish to accomplish in your life?
• With the discovery of fossils, we know about hominins' skeletons. But how do we know about organs, systems, cartilages, skin, hair, etc.
• We define a species by its ablitity to generate fertile offspring. But it is sometimes said that different species interbred, so how is it possible?
• What differenciates Humans from the other animal species? How did we gain so much power?
• If another human species was alive today, how would we interact with them?
• How did language evolve? How could we know?
• Has your life changed after publishing this book and with this recent new fame? Do people come up to you for autographs?
• Why did we evolve to have less hair? Why did we keep them at certain places like on our head?
• Why did we start wearing clothes?
• Genetically speaking, how can you make a link between all the hominins?
• How can scientists determine so precisely the living period of each genus?

Final questions

• When and why did you start studying human evolution?
• Ever since you've published the book, were there any new discoveries that have contradicted what you said in it? Or on the contrary, any additional information that you wish you could've added?
• Every species has its own way to communicate, so how did language evolve? How could we know?
• Genetically speaking, how can you make a link between all the hominins?
• Why did we evolve to have less hair? Why did we keep them at certain places like on our head?
• With the discovery of fossils, we know about hominins' skeletons. But how do we know about organs, systems, cartilages, skin, hair, etc.
  

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