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DARK MATTER
Despite the fact that evolution is measured in extremely long times, the arrival of agriculture transformed everything at once, laying the foundations of our modern world.
Over time, humans have evolved so much that it is sometimes hard to believe that we really came from creatures that, some two million years ago, were only 1.20 meters tall, completely covered in hair, and just beginning to stand tall. shyly on their lower limbs to go from being quadrupedal to bipedal.
Since then things have changed a lot, we no longer live in trees or in caves, and we have gone from carving stones to building spaceships, but the obvious differences that separate us from our first ancestors did not arise suddenly, but are the fruit of Hundreds of thousands of small changes that slowly accumulated over the millennia. To appreciate significant differences between one and the other members of the human family, we normally have to analyze individuals separated by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
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