Joining the dots
An 85,000-year-old Homo sapiens finger bone in Saudi Arabia is the oldest directly dated fossil for our species outside Africa and the Levant. This suggests a more prolonged human expansion out of Africa, and along a different route, than previously thought.
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Nature ecology & evolution 2018-05, Vol.2 (5), p.767-768 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | An 85,000-year-old
Homo sapiens
finger bone in Saudi Arabia is the oldest directly dated fossil for our species outside Africa and the Levant. This suggests a more prolonged human expansion out of Africa, and along a different route, than previously thought. |
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| ISSN: | 2397-334X 2397-334X |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41559-018-0539-x |