In the 19th century, scientists finally junked the Biblical idea of a seven-day divine Creation -- with man, at the pinnacle of the process, being fashioned from clay on the sixth day.
Ever since, it seems, we haven't stopped searching for our secular version of the "sixth day": the dawn of modern humans.
But how to recognize the scientific equivalent of that moment "In the beginning" when humankind came into being?
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