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Homo sapiens (‘wise man’) Our own species, which is thought to have evolved c.500,000 years ago from Homo erectus. The earliest fossils of H. sapiens have been discovered in Africa. Modern man, H. sapiens sapiens, developed sophisticated tools (c.40,000 years ago) that enabled it to colonize all Earth's continents, except Antarctica, by c.10,000 years ago.

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