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| Tango01 | 31 Jan 2018 9:39 p.m. PST |
…outside of Africa "A large international research team, led by Israel Hershkovitz from Tel Aviv University and including Rolf Quam from Binghamton University, State University of New York, has discovered the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside of Africa. The finding suggests that modern humans left the continent at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.
"Misliya is an exciting discovery," says Rolf Quam, Binghamton University anthropology professor and a coauthor of the study. "It provides the clearest evidence yet that our ancestors first migrated out of Africa much earlier than we previously believed. It also means that modern humans were potentially meeting and interacting during a longer period of time with other archaic human groups, providing more opportunity for cultural and biological exchanges."…"
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| Cacique Caribe | 01 Feb 2018 3:04 a.m. PST |
Wow, 175,000-200,000 years old? Somebody really couldn't wait to get out of Africa. Or maybe they got chased out by something else, something VERY big? :) Dan
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| Col Durnford | 01 Feb 2018 8:53 a.m. PST |
And he just won't stop complaining about scale creep. |
| Tango01 | 01 Feb 2018 11:01 a.m. PST |
(smile)
so… Big Foot was bad?…. (smile)
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| Cacique Caribe | 01 Feb 2018 11:45 p.m. PST |
They can't all be nice. Surely there's a few angry ones too! :) Dan |
| Tango01 | 02 Feb 2018 10:50 a.m. PST |
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