How Homo sapiens became world’s dominant species
‘First Peoples’ engagingly describes humans’ rise, global spread

ADAM OR EVE The new miniseries First Peoples tells the story of how humans emerged in Africa and went on to colonize the rest of the world. Found in Ethiopia, this roughly 195,000-year-old skull known as Omo I is the oldest known Homo sapiens fossil.
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