Did violent volcanic eruptions create modern humans? A landmark 2016 study linking the East African Rift Valley to Homo sapiens around 300,000 years ago says they may have

Did violent volcanic eruptions create modern humans? New science says yes. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, massive eruptions shook the East African Rift Valley. They destroyed entire habitats overnight. Yet, those same disasters created vital freshwater lakes and forced early Homo sapiens to adapt or die. Earths fiercest volcanic landscape didn't just threaten ancient humans. It actively drove human evolution. Here is how volcanoes forged humanity.

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