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Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago

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273 points geox | 2 comments | 17 Jun 24 21:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.801s | source
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cpncrunch ◴[18 Jun 24 04:25 UTC] No.40714063[source]▶
News article says humans, but earliest human (homo sapiens) was around 300kya. The actual paper uses the word hominids rather than humans.
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sydbarrett74 ◴[18 Jun 24 05:19 UTC] No.40714284[source]▶
Can we all agree that 'human' should be defined as all members of the genus Homo?
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1. Pengtuzi ◴[18 Jun 24 05:41 UTC] No.40714381[source]▶
No
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2. alberto_ol ◴[18 Jun 24 05:58 UTC] No.40714468[source]▶
Archaic human?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans

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