The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)
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The Evolution of Homo Sapiens
There's increasingly this idea that early on with Homo sapiens, you've got a bunch of sort of little populations that are scattered around the continent and periodically the climate conditions either bring them together or push them apart. And it sounds almost like what you just said is that there's a kind of within Africa version of that, right? So, you know, maybe the point is not to say here in Africa is where modern Homo sapiens evolved, but rather there's this kind of complex network of populations that are merging and splitting over many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years. Is that a fair comparison to draw? That's a great way of putting it.
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