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No Single Cradle of Humankind

Season 6 Episode 19 | 10m 46s

It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that maybe they’d been asking the wrong question all along.

Aired: 04/29/24
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