No matter the languages we speak or the colour of our skin, we share ancestors who planted rice on the banks of the Yangtze, who first domesticated horses on the steppes of the Ukraine, who hunted giant sloths in the forests of North and South America, and who laboured to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Adam Rutherford
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Language divides us, along with many other differences. But, there is one thing that all humans share: an ancestor who lived in the distant past. Because of this fact, we can all learn from one another. Even if we speak different languages, we still have the same ancestors and the same history to learn from.

Source: A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories In Our Genes

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