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Australia

When humans arrived in Australia, they were, for the first time, truly alone, surrounded by wildly different flora and fauna. How did they survive and populate a continent? There is a close cultural and genetic link between early Australians and modern-day Aborigines; here the ancient and modern story intersect as nowhere else.

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

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Africa

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

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