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What was the first human species?
What was the first human species?
Learn about early species in the genus
Homo
and scholarly debates over what defines being human.
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What was the first human species?
What happens to a person's biological clock in isolation?
When did humans migrate to the Americas
Listen to psycholinguist Steven Pinker speaking about the “cognitive niche” in early modern human evolution
Finding prehistoric family ties with modern DNA
See a researcher making an Oldowan flint flake from obsidian through a technique known as knapping
genetically modified humans
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