The First Humans
The Ancients
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The Origins of Homo
We think that the genus Homo somewhere emerged between three and two but it might even be older than three million we really don't know. We are talking about at least four species in the same area on the landscape of eastern Africa. It is not to say that homo erectus is any later than homo habilis or riddle fences that term early still comes from this deep desire to put everything on one lineage, he says. The evidence shows definitely not thank you for highlighting that near the end I'm a I'm a mammalian paleontologist originally so I never had lectures about all of this where you could ask all the silly questions.
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