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Our big brains, our language ability, and our intelligence make us uniquely human.  But barely 10,000 years ago (a mere blip in evolutionary time) human-like creatures called "Boskops" flourished in South Africa. They possessed extraordinary features: forebrains roughly 50% larger than ours,... read more

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Somewhere in Africa, sometime between five and six million years ago, began a process that led to an unprecedented outcome: the domination of the planet by a single species.

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  1. Gary Lynch (Author)
 

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