maybe your thinking of neanderthals which were around at the same time as modern humans and is thought that we may have drove them to extinction. but this is all after homo erectus went extinct. they were stockier and had more ape like features like a large brow ridge.
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ps lol, i love the bell labs story. that they teted the hole thing for a year. cleaning it and killing pidgeons all around so that there was no interference
yes that was a great story. they cleaned out all the bird shit and everything lol