Wowzers. If I&#x27;m understanding that correctly, there are some people alive today whose last common male ancestor with the rest of humanity was a pre-homo sapien? Sheeeit.<p>And yes, after the eventual upturning this evidence is going to force to occur, I think reflections will admit that many made a conscious&#x2F;unconscious decision to politicize science to avoid being seen as abetting or enabling the sort of horrific philosophies that resulted in the slavery and genocide of the last hundreds of years, culminating in the holocaust.<p>And so, we lysenkoized science for good intentions and perhaps with good results, but the evidence is beginning to overflow the dam, and I worry that it is soon going to be the time for ... people of a liberal mindset, to get behind the new evidence and find a way to rebuild&#x2F;salvage the philosophical foundations of legal&#x2F;cultural equality without the happy simple story at the bottom of it, because if we don&#x27;t, the door is going to open to the right-wing to use this for their purposes against the left&#x27;s increasingly strained denials