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Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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