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Columbia Climate School

Human Family

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At Nairobi's Kenya National Museum, two Homo sapiens visit the skeleton of Turkana Boy, member of a precursor species known as Homo erectus. By his time, some 1.6 million years ago, the east African landscape was largely dominated by grasses.

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Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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