Humanity's early exodus from Africa

• Autores: Michael Marshall
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3163, 2018, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The history of our species needs rewriting--again. A jawbone from a cave in Israelis at least 177,000 years old, indicating that Homo sapiens left its African birthplace at least 50,000 years earlier than thought. A second study implies our forebears roamed widely. Our species evolved in Africa in the last few hundred thousand years. About 70,000 years ago, people spread to every continent. But there were earlier forays out of Africa. The oldest firm evidence is from Skhul and Qafzeh in Israel, 120,000 years ago. It is thought the people who dwelled there have no living descendants. Now Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University in Israel and his colleagues have pushed back the date of our first departure. In Misliya cave on Mount Carmel in Israel, they found the upper jawbone and teeth of a human. The remains are between 177,000 and 194,000 years old