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Evolution: 150,000-Year-Old Rainforest Discovery Shakes Up Human History • Feb. 27, 2025, 1:09 AM ET (Newsweek)
In a 1st, ancient proteins reveal sex of human relative from 3.5 million years ago • Feb. 7, 2025, 11:48 PM ET (Live Science)
The discovery that Africa is the birthplace of human evolution • Feb. 4, 2025, 10:30 PM ET (Nature)

Did You Know?

  • Homo sapiens likely first left Africa because of a sudden cooling of Earth's climate between 60,000 and 70,000 years ago.
  • The genetic sequence of humans is just over 1% different from that of chimpanzees and bonobos.
  • During Earth's sudden cooling some 70,000 years ago, the human population almost went extinct, with perhaps fewer than 10,000 individuals alive at one point.

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