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The Human Story: How We Got Here and Why We Survived.

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Evolution of Human Intelligence

Hippos were everywhere across britain during the last interglacial, about a hundred and 25 thousand years ago. And you can find them all the way up to north wales, north yorkshire. So it was very challenging. But before thaty we just have to judge, yes, the brains are getting bigger er. It looks like behavior. The way theyi'r processing carcasses. They're able to get dangerous animals, so they must be increasing their intelligence to be ableto acquire food. Aminat box grove, half a million years ago, they not only were getting food from horse and deer, but even rhinos, rhinoceroses,.

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