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Map of the world showing parts colonised from Africa (lemmy.world)
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[–] purahna@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I do love a good jape from time to time, but colonization is when you show up and expel/enslave/imprison the people who are already there, which is decidedly not how the spread of people from Africa worked

[–] triarius@programming.dev 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think the Neanderthals would disagree

[–] mashbooq 24 points 2 years ago

And the Denisovans

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