
Where Did Human Intelligence Come From?
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Homo Sapiens - The Hominin Line
Homo sapiens is taken from the Latin word for knowledge, though it kind of all makes sense. The hominins are everybody that started off branching from that common ancestor with chimps. It's a really tangled convoluted family tree where some kind of led to blind alleys, others lead to others. And almost all the hominins used tools, it seems like, and made tools.
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