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The Four Colors of Business Growth
© Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
2011
These are our stories. They tell us who we are.
– Anthwara to Picard, TNG/“Journey’s End”
in Quotable Star Trek by Jill Sherwin
Today, we take it for granted that we, Homo sapiens, represent the only
hominid on this planet. Yet many different hominid species shared
the planet for at least 4 million years.
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A few hundred thousand years
ago, a hominid species that had a lot in common with us occupied
most of Europe and western Asia. Called Neanderthals, these homin-
ids were the most accomplished practitioners of “prepared-core” tool
technolo ...