# The Missing Link and the First Homo

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 22, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-missing-link-and-the-first-homo/746808 "2016-02-22T16:23:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-missing-link-and-the-first-homo/746808/20 "2016-02-22T21:16:44Z")

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Well, I do know how to Google for posts at SDMB. 🙂 From 4 years ago:

> [@Human Speciation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-speciation/604866/35):
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> I’ve read a claim that chimpanzees and early hominids did in fact interbreed during a 9 Million to 6 Million years ago time frame, though of course they were much closer genetically then. …
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> [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12836649/ns/technology\_and\_science-science/t/did-chimp-human-ancestors-interbreed](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12836649/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/did-chimp-human-ancestors-interbreed)  
> … not the longish article I read a few years ago

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