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Population: Survival and Growth

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Early humans evolved some five to six million years ago, and from the last common grandmother of humans and chimpanzees around 2.5 million years ago, the genus homo arose with the development of stone tools.

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Martins, J.M., Guo, F., Swanson, D.A. (2018). Population: Survival and Growth. In: Global Population in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77362-9_1

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