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The Importance of Water in Human Evolution
Water would always have been important, of course. Certainly we can't survive without water supplies. And those water sources would also be sources for other animals. Being near a lake or river means you're also going to get opportunities to hunt the animals that are coming to that river and so on. So humans have always been not too far away from water. But I think water was always important to us. There always had to be sources nearby. What about tools? We're talking stone tools, animal bones. Is that how we're hunting things, making things, building things? Well, in the early stages, the evidence we've got almost entirely stone because stone survives well through history. Later
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