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Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolution

Monsoon-driven wildfires may have shaped human evolutionWorldPing

A reconstruction of East Africa's environment 1.75 million years ago suggests wildfires spiked during wetter times, which may have influenced human evolution…

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