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Re:Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in ... by jackfoxy on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:15PM (#22788790)
Living Together is a loaded term suggesting peaceful coexistence. I think it's much more likely each species/sub-species in turn drove each other out of a desirable habitat over a very short period of time, in geological time. But 10s of thousands of years is a long time for individuals and clans. The different species may have never even seen each other.

The actual paper Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa does not suggest any of this.

Re:Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in ... by Accujack on Sunday April 05, 2020 @06:21PM (#22789224)
Awww... I was kind of hoping the three species would be Homo Rossus, Paranthropus Chandlerus, and Australopithecus Josephus.
Re:Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in ... by dntbnmpls on Sunday April 05, 2020 @07:36PM (#22789658)
As parent noted, these species probably weren't friends.
Re:Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in ... by mirimir on Sunday April 05, 2020 @09:28PM (#22790183)
Well, are lions and tigers "friends"? Or wolves and coyotes? Or brown bears and grizzlies?

With various human species, it could have been more complicated. Slavery would arguably have been likely.

Re:Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in ... by twojacobtwo on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:14PM (#22790366)
The joke was that all the names GP listed were references to characters from the television show "Friends".
Re:Three kinds of early humans unearthed living together in ... by mirimir on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:28PM (#22790430)
Huh. I know the show, but I managed to never see more than a few seconds of it at any one time ;)