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World Service,16 Jul 1996,28 mins

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Humans represent the most dramatic biological event ever to have occurred on the planet for hundreds of millions of years. Anthropologist, Dr. Robert Foley, discusses the human exponential growth. Picture: Human figures on world map, Credit: Thinkstock

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