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Richard Dawkins has discussed this point at length. There really was no "moment" when the "first" human was born. There was a group of hominids that gradually became more like modern humans, until at some point we would agree they were "human", but at any one moment, there would have been a whole tribe of them, or even a whole population.

Think about the Chicken and Egg argument - it's exactly the same...

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