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Learn how Homo sapiens, new in Australia and truly alone, managed to survive and flourish.
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Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.

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Learn how Homo sapiens, new in Australia and truly alone, managed to survive and flourish.

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Discover a type of ancient human whose genes helped us face down extinction.

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Examine research that suggests we humans are patchwork species of hybrids.

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Learn why a discovery in Mexico may rewrite the story of early migration to the Americas.