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Cro-Magnon


(kroh-MAG-nuhn, kroh-MAN-yuhn) The earliest form of modern humans. The Cro-Magnons developed about 35,000 years ago and physically resembled modern Europeans. (See Homo sapiens.)	1
‡ Cro-Magnon people painted the walls of their caves, producing some of the earliest known human art.	2

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