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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Evolution of Human Beings

Our closest living relatives are the chimpenzes and benobos, and slightly more distant to that is gorillas. The chimpanzes and benobo lineage split from hours probably somewhere between five to seven million, maybe eight million years ago. And then there is an explosion of anatomically modern humans out of africa and the neare east between 50 and a hundred thousand years ago. That's what we need for background for the d and a, have au background for the evolution of human beings,. cause it's always very confusing to me.

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