Another chapter written in 'Out of Africa' story

Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 12:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

By Tia GhoseLiveScience Our early human ancestors may have left Africa more recently than thought, between 62,000 and 95,000 years ago, suggests a new analysis of genetic material from fossil skeletons.The new findings are in line with earlier estimates, but contradict a more recent study that put humans' first exodus from Africa at least 200,000 years ago.The new results "agree with what we know ...

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