The Origins of Homo Sapiens
The Ancients
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The Origins of Modern Humans, the Origin of Our Species
The origins of modern humans is a big topic, and it's one where we've had so many discoveries in the last few years. We estimate that we had a common ancestor with our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees, maybe seven billion years ago. So for the earliest stages of human evolution, we've got fosses in africa that are close to seven million years old. And these people we discovered from d and a data the denisivens living over in east asia.
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