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"text": "The genus homo is very confusing, I don't understand anything about it being \"cave-men\" or \"ape-men\", it was just normal people thousands of years ago, I don't understand this or evolution at all, I mean how could we have looked and been like that?."
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"The genus idea of humans. This means \"modern\" people (\"homo sapiens\"), \"cavemen,\" and what some people call \"ape-men.\" This word is Latin but is also a science word in English; it is an evolutionary idea."
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"Short for homosexual."
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"text": "The genus homo is very confusing, I don't understand anything about it being \"cave-men\" or \"ape-men\", it was just normal people thousands of years ago, I don't understand this or evolution at all, I mean how could we have looked and been like that?."
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