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The Origin of Us: Human evolution (Ep 47)

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The Origins of HOMO

The tools are about a little more than 3.3 million years old. And when you're at that depth of time, that's way older than any evidence for the genus HOMO. That puts us into the realm of Australopithecus,. things like Lucy, but some other sort ofAustralopithecine species. Their body proportions are different, much more ape-like. They have brains that are a third of the size of our own.

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