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  2. Timeline of the evolutionary history of life - Wikipedia

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    Species go extinct constantly as environments change, as organisms compete for environmental niches, and as genetic mutation leads to the rise of new species from older ones. At long irregular intervals, Earth's biosphere suffers a catastrophic die-off, a mass extinction , [ 9 ] often comprising an accumulation of smaller extinction events over ...

  3. Recent human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Human traits that emerged recently include the ability to free-dive for long periods of time, [11] adaptations for living in high altitudes where oxygen concentrations are low, [2] resistance to contagious diseases (such as malaria), [12] light skin, [13] blue eyes, [14] lactase persistence (or the ability to digest milk after weaning), [15 ...

  4. Neanderthal extinction - Wikipedia

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    Improved radiocarbon dating published in 2015 indicates that Neanderthals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, which overturns older carbon dating which indicated that Neanderthals may have lived as recently as 24,000 years ago, [3] including in refugia on the south coast of the Iberian peninsula such as Gorham's Cave. [4]

  5. How Long You Were Expected to Live the Year You Were Born

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    1940. Overall life expectancy: 62.9 Women: 65.2 Men: 60.8 The United States began the ’40s on an upswing, with life expectancy up sharply from 58.5 years in 1936, when the nation was still ...

  6. 22 People Who Are Alive Just Because Someone Made A ... - AOL

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    Image credits: Lone_Digger123 #6. This sorta doesn't count, but I'll tell it anyway. I was born at 24 weeks and 3 days through emergency c-section and weighed 1 pound half oz, and was 11 inches long.

  7. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Two species are described in the literature: A. ramidus, which lived about 4.4 million years ago [32] during the early Pliocene, and A. kadabba, dated to approximately 5.6 million years ago [33] (late Miocene). A. ramidus had a small brain, measuring between 300 and 350 cm 3.

  8. The Weeknd Says 2025 Is Going to Be 'New Everything' as He ...

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    2025 is going to be The Weeknd's year.. The Dawn FM performer (whose real name is Abel Tesfaye) took the stage at Spotify's Billions Club Live in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Dec. 17, to perform a jam ...

  9. Human history - Wikipedia

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    Human history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers.They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.