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How climate shifts sparked human evolution

Olduvai Gorge - The Cradle of Mankind by wwarby
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Nicolle Rager Fuller / NSF The first specimen of Paranthropus boisei, also called Nutcracker Man, was reported by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1959 from a site in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

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Scientists find that the landscape in Africa's cradle of humanity fluctuated rapidly roughly 2 million years ago, likely guiding early human evolution.

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How climate shifts sparked human evolution

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