Brenda Kilmurray

Its tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down. But thanks to the amazing work of anthropologists and paleontologists like those working on National Geographics Genographic Project, we can begin to piece together the story of our ancestors. Heres how early humans spread from East Africa all around the world.

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