What if Humans Are NOT Our Planet's First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis

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We’re almost certainly the first technological civilization on Earth. But what if we’re not? We are. Although how sure are we, really? The Silurian hypothesis, which asks whether pre-human industrial civilizations might have existed.

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