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  2. Prehistory - Wikipedia

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    The use of fire enabled early humans to cook food, provide warmth, have a light source, deter animals at night and meditate. [24] [25] Early Homo sapiens originated some 300,000 years ago, [26] ushering in the Middle Palaeolithic. Anatomic changes indicating modern language capacity also arise during the Middle Palaeolithic. [27]

  3. Timeline of prehistory - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the Early European modern humans that inhabited Europe earlier, these populations form part of the ancestry of modern Europe. [35] 36 kya: Evidence of humans using fibers in a cave in present-day Georgia. [50] [51] 33 kya: Earliest evidence of humanoids in Ireland. [52] 33 kya – 22 kya: Gravettian period in Europe. [53] [54]

  4. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Possible early ancestors of catarrhines include Aegyptopithecus and Saadanius. 35-20 Ma Proconsul. Catarrhini splits into 2 superfamilies, Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoidea) and apes . Human trichromatic color vision had its genetic origins in this period. Catarrhines lost the vomeronasal organ (or possibly reduced it to vestigial status).

  5. “History Cool Kids”: 91 Interesting Pictures From The Past

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    By early May, Gerda was one of only 120 women who were still alive. The rest—including several of her childhood friends—had died from exhaustion, starvation, random executions, and exposure to ...

  6. 135 Interesting Facts for Kids and Adults to Blow Your Mind - AOL

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    31. Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. 32. Humans have 99.9% of the same DNA sequence. 33. If a person eats too many carrots, their skin will turn orange. ... Interesting Facts for Kids ...

  7. Test your knowledge with these 100 fascinating facts - AOL

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    Animals can also be allergic to humans. ... Interesting facts for kids. Bats are the only flying mammals. Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable. Chihuahuas are the smallest dog breed.

  8. Mrs. Ples - Wikipedia

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    Mrs. Ples is the popular nickname for the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus ever found in South Africa.Many Australopithecus fossils have been found near Sterkfontein, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Johannesburg, in a region of Gauteng (part of the old Transvaal) now designated as the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.

  9. Cro-Magnon - Wikipedia

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    The early modern human vocal apparatus is generally thought to have been the same as that in present-day humans, as the present-day variation of the FOXP2 gene associated with the neurological prerequisites for speech and language ability seems to have evolved within the last 100,000 years, [124] and the modern human hyoid bone (which supports ...