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Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans | Anthropology

Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans | Anthropology

A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens first emerged outside of Africa. Leading scientists reached this conclusion after reanalysis of a skull known as Yunxian 2 discovered in China and previously classified as belonging to a member of the …

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