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  • 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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human and gorilla legs compared
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the base of the human skull
hominid fossil excavation sites
Why don't humans have tails?
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