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Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

Ancient jawbone suggests humans left Africa 50,000 years earlier

31 January 2018

We thought that our ancestors were confined to Africa until 120,000 years ago, but a fossil from an Israeli cave reveals an earlier exodus over 170,000 years ago

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