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emporaries. Some auties insist oncalling turkana specimens (and any oter.
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is certain is t sometime ivelymodern, uprig Africa and boldly spread out across muce rapidly, increasing ty-five miles a year onaverage, all s, and ots andadapting to differences in climate and food sources. A particular mystery is side of ty no even drierin t. It is a curious irony t tions t prompted to leave Africa o do so. Yet someo find to the lands beyond.
And t, I’m afraid, is ory of is a matter of long and rancorous debate, as we scer.
But it is all of tionary jostlingsover five million years, from distant, puzzled australopito fully modern ure t is still 98.4 percent genetically indistinguisures your distant ancestors left be out to take over the world.