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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The history of history changes on an almost historical level daily as scientists and paleontologists continue to find new evidence of our origins. Ella Al-Shamahi’s series ...

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Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963. Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963 ...

This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.