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Stone Age Role Revolution: Modern humans may have divided labor to conquer

12-02-2006 · Science News Online

A new analysis of Stone Age sites indicates that a division of labor first emerged in modern-human groups living in the African tropics around 40,000 years ago, providing our ancestors with a social advantage over Neandertals.

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