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Human Innovation Timeline

An evidence-based timeline where students investigate the development of bipedalism, tools, fire, migration, hunting, shelter, social care, symbolic culture, seafaring and agriculture. Clickable evidence nodes distinguish fossil, archaeological, anatomical, genetic and environmental evidence and communicate the confidence of scientific interpretations.

Years 10–12, UndergraduateExplorerHuman Evolution and Innovation
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