Homo and the End of Certainties
By Pascal Picq
English
Paleoanthropologists begin to overcome the deceptive rigidity of hominization. This linear and anthropocentric conception of human evolution is the leafless tree that hides the ancestral bush. Uncertainty, seemingly haunting so many people today, might originate from this fact, long-neglected by all systems of hegemonic thought: the neglect, or rather the denial of diversity. More than ever, facing uncertainties means understanding what evolution is.