According to the speaker, when did the genus Homo come into existence?

Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Your Body’s Repair System Began Billions of Years Ago

23 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Your body's repair system traces back billions of years to the earliest cells. Stem cells emerged because organisms needed to fix damaged tissue, a fundamental mechanism that shaped everything that came after. Understanding health today means starting with these ancient biological principles and layering on modern science.

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2.8 million years ago.

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Human evolution started way longer than the 2.8 million years ago that the genus Homo came into existence. Right. Really, the truth is, human evolution started when cells first started, were made up of the same materials. We didn't reinvent the cell, and humans came into existence. And in that time, that's when these fleets of cells said, hey, you know, we need to have a way to repair our tissues. And that's when stem cells first came into existence. But yeah, when I think about what is going to be healthy for us in today's world, I consider the principles of an ancestral, you know, theory as first and foremost, that then you look at modern science and you conflate the two, and you see what kind of wisdom you can glean from.