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Sapiens
Part of 2/26


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Although not the first humans Homo sapiens came to replace all other human species on Earth.  
We humans are pretty special: we completely dominate the planet and we’ve even moved beyond the Earth’s boundaries to explore and possibly colonize space.
How have we been able to do so much? In order to find out we must go back to the start to the evolution of our human species.
Humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago in East Africa evolving from a genus of great apes known as Australopithecus . These early humans such as Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus eventually migrated abandoning East Africa for more promising environments. Adaptation to these new habitats led them to evolve into even more forms of Homo including Homo neanderthalensis in Europe