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    Summary of Tom Higham's The World Before Us
    Summary of Tom Higham's The World Before Us
    Summary of Tom Higham's The World Before Us
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    Summary of Tom Higham's The World Before Us

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    Listen to the Summary of Tom Higham's The World Before Us in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The idea that humans originated in Africa dates back to Charles Darwin, who predicted that in order to find the ancestors of humans we should explore places where our closest living relatives, the great apes, now live...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverest Media
    Release dateOct 11, 2022
    ISBN9798868648182
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