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posted by martyb on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the was-just-out-for-a-walk dept.

Earliest modern human found outside Africa

Researchers have found the earliest example of our species (modern humans) outside Africa. A skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to 210,000 years ago, at a time when Europe was occupied by the Neanderthals. The sensational discovery adds to evidence of an earlier migration of people from Africa that left no trace in the DNA of people alive today.

[...] Homo sapiens fossils from Skhul and Qafzeh in Israel were dated in the 1990s to between 90,000 and 125,000 years ago.

These were viewed as anomalies - a brief foray outside our African homeland that came to very little.

However, in recent years, we've come to understand that our species ranged outside Africa even earlier and further than we'd previously believed.

In the last few years, palaeontologists have discovered modern human fossils from Daoxian and Zhirendong in China dating to between 80,000 and 120,000 years ago.

Also at Phys.org (AFP).

Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z) (DX)


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:04PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:04PM (#865820)

    We wuz kabgz is just some made up shit. Humans did not originate in Africa.

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  • (Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:13PM (4 children)

    by Rupert Pupnick (7277) on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:13PM (#865823) Journal

    Calling Dr. Idiocracy...

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by ikanreed on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:02PM (3 children)

      by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:02PM (#865839) Journal

      Here I am. Dr Idiocracy. I see the code blue.

      Administering 10 CCs of the movie promoting eugenics in response to dumbshit ad hoc anthropological theories posted by shitty internet neonazis.

      Oh no the conversation got stupider!

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Rupert Pupnick on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:35PM (2 children)

        by Rupert Pupnick (7277) on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:35PM (#865850) Journal

        Okay, okay! Next time I'll just downmod. Sheesh!

        • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:44PM (1 child)

          by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:44PM (#865869) Journal

          I'm sorry. I know everything is getting stupider and it's nice to have some place to ground yourself.

          But that movie isn't a great one in this specific context.

          • (Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:37PM

            by Rupert Pupnick (7277) on Thursday July 11 2019, @07:37PM (#865927) Journal

            I’m with you 100% in spirit, it’s just that my implementation sometimes misses, especially when it comes to pop culture. No worries.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:18PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:18PM (#865824) Journal

    Oh yeah they did! Modern humans got the hell out, and antique humans stayed behind.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:24PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @04:24PM (#865844)

      ugh

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @12:13AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @12:13AM (#866037)

        ugh

        Fuck me, someone's let a not-so-modern human play with an Internet connected device...still, one has to admire the fact that the poor bugger is at least capable of typing it's name, ok, so its only three letters, and any of my cats randomly running across a keyboard will generate more meaningful and entertaining output, but hey, baby steps there ugh old chap, baby steps...

        the secret is to bang the rocks together..

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:29PM (#865864)

      Got admixed with Neanderthals hence explaining current white supremacy bullcrap...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @05:16PM (#865862)

    ugh

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday July 12 2019, @03:38AM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday July 12 2019, @03:38AM (#866103) Journal

    Tell me, is the earth 6000 years old?

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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex