There's a new episode of PBS Eons. Paranthropus robustus and related species lived and evolved along side of us around 1 - 2 million years ago. What happened to them?
There was a group of hominins, those creatures more closely related to us than to chimpanzees, that did take a different, parallel journey from our ancestors. Our paths ran beside each other - and potentially even crossed at times - but while ours led us here, theirs led to extinction."
