0100-Africa is the world's 2nd largest and 2nd most-populous continent after Asia, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area and about 14% of the world's human population, or 900,000,000 people as of 2005 in 61 territories, there are 46 countries including Madagascar and 53 including all the island groups, Africa straddles the equator and lacks precipitation much of the time and is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones, is the largest of the 3 great southward projections from the main mass of the Earth's exposed surface,
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Central Eastern Africa is widely regarded within the scientific community to be the origin of humans and the Hominidae tree, hominids dated to around 7 million years ago including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus and Homo erectus with the earliest humans being dated to about 200,000 BC according to this theory,
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