ORIGINS: Homo Sapiens interbred with four other hominid races, two as yet unknown

"Of these hominins, only Neanderthals and Denisovans are currently known; the others remain unnamed and have only been detected as traces of DNA surviving in different modern populations."

http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/humans-hominin-introgression-07438.html

ORIGINS: New fossil discovery moves back date of African exodus

A 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece shows that migration from Africa began >50,000 years earlier than previously thought:

https://theconversation.com/oldest-human-skull-outside-africa-identified-as-210-000-years-old-120188

RAPA NUI / EASTER ISLAND: Polynesians did NOT ruin the island

A counter to the greenstory about humans triggering ecological collapse on Rapa Nui is here:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/07/easter-islands-ecological-suicide-myths-and-realities/

For example:

"Easter Islanders never cut their palm trees at all! According to their cultural legends, when the Polynesians’ canoes reached Easter about 1000 AD, the island was covered in grasses. There were only a few palms. Modern pollen studies confirm this, showing that the island did have palm trees in the ancient past – but most died in the cold droughts of the Dark Ages (600–950 AD). The few surviving palms died during the Little Ice Age after the Polynesians colonized the island. The last palm died about 1650."