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Africa

200,000 years ago Homo sapiens appeared on the African landscape. While scientists have long imagined eastern Africa as a real-life Garden of Eden, the latest research suggests humans evolved in many places across the continent at the same time. Now, DNA reveals that our ancestors continued meeting, mating and hybridizing with other human type — creating ever greater diversity within us.

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Europe

Find out why Neanderthals, with whom early humans in Europe interbred, went extinct.

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Australia

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

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Asia

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

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