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Around 400,000 years ago, the environment in East Africa became less predictable, making adaptability increasingly important for survival. That instability likely drove social and technological innovation among early humans in the region.
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Farmers in Mexico and the southwestern Amazon improved predecessors of today’s corn for thousands of years until the crop was fully domesticated.
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Artifacts from about 320,000 years ago indicate that early humans had begun replacing technologies and ways of life that had been in place for hundreds of thousands of years.
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