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People on The Planet
Modern man has been on the earth for just 100,000 years.
Modern man has been on the earth for just 100,000 years. In just a relatively short time man kind has become the most successful race on earth. All the evidence points to Africa as the place where the first humans emerged from their ape ancestors about 4.5 million years ago.
This is a programme from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1999.
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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project