My first moments with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey were a little chaotic. Turning off the on-screen prompts and heads-up display before it even started was definitely a big mistake.

In the 8 million years or so since the earliest ancestors of humans diverged from the apes, at least a dozen humanlike species, called hominids, have lived on Earth. And this list is getting longer.

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The human body evolved over eons, slowly calibrating to the African savanna on which 98 percent of humankind ... longer than our ancestors. Through centuries of generations, evolution has helped ...

adding fuel to the theory that humans and their ancestors originated in Africa. In 1999, UNESCO declared the area a World Heritage site, referring to it as the “undisputed Cradle of Humankind.” ...

The area is known as the Cradle of Humankind. Scientists have identified ... role in the development of our concepts of human evolution,” says C.K. “Bob” Brain, a curator emeritus at South ...

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