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Homo sapiens

During a time of dramatic climate change, 200,000 years ago, Homosapiens first appeared in near the horn of Africa and began to migrate until they reached most of the globe by 10,000 years ago

Source: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980)

Homo Habilis
World map of the peopling of the world through migration during the Upper Paleolithic
Image by Dbachmann under CC BY-SA 4.0 license

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