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Anthropology

cstanleytech

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12. Could also have partly been an inadvertent act because around that time

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2019, 04:42 PM

Nov 2019

homo sapiens really began to spread out which means the viruses they carried also spread out and if the other species had no prior exposure it could have impacted on them in a very negative manner.

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300,000 years ago, nine human species lived on Earth. Did homo sapiens exterminate the others? [View all] Judi Lynn Nov 2019 OP

Quite interesting! Thanks for posting!!! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2019 #1

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Could also have partly been an inadvertent act because around that time cstanleytech Nov 2019 #12