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Why Did Modern Humans Take So Long to Leave Africa?
The accepted view of human evolution has home sapiens evolving in east Africa. But the discovery of similar human fossils in other parts of Africa is calling this view into question and raising questions about what it means to be home sapiens.
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Scientists Reveal Neanderthals Caused Their Own Extinction
A virtual experiment suggests that the Neaderthal tendency to rely on cannibalism in hard times may have become endemic causing divisions into group contributing to their extinction. An examination fossil evidence shows evidence of incest and genetic disease supporting the division hypothesis.
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What Caused almost 99% of Humans to go Extinct?
Between 800 and 900 thousand years ago the Eurasia-Africa supercontinent underwent a series of climate changes with periodic ice ages in the north and severe drought in the south. This period created a human population bottleneck of as few as 1000 individuals with reduced genetic diversity including chromosome number. But out this time walked the incredibly resilient and apparently more intelligent homo erectus.
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