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Current Biology dates Homo sapiens to about 200,000 years ago and describes cooperation, diet, life-history and reproduction as central evolutionary factors; this conflicts with describing humans as evolving for four billion years for only survival and procreation. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The evolution of human cooperation · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:a7438e159fdfd8d5e97f42a27e43a474a292fef3fb5873ebb6dce2833a1cec36

Our species, Homo sapiens, first appeared about 200,000 years ago in Africa ... our capacity for cooperation. ... Unique aspects of human diet, life-history and reproduction made cooperation a necessary element of human life.