Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Earlier Origins for Modern Humans
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A reanalysis of a 1-million-year-old skull from China suggests it may belong to Homo longi, indicating that modern human origins could be much older and outside Africa, potentially reshaping our understanding of human evolutionary history.
- Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans The Guardian
- A skull unearthed in China challenges the timeline of human evolution, scientists say CNN
- Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, say scientists BBC
- Reconstructed skull gives surprising clues to our enigmatic Ancestor X New Scientist
- Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Homo Sapiens Are Nearly Twice As Old As We Thought IFLScience
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