Most people catch the common cold at least once a year, making the seasonal sniffles a staple of the human experience. But it's possible that some of the earliest Homo sapiens were catching colds at least 300,000 years ago, the time the oldest archaeological evidence of our species dates to. Scientists have different hypotheses as to when cold viruses first took off.
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