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Dave the Atheist
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Date: January 26, 2018 12:28AM
"A partial jawbone and set of flint tools found in a cave in Israel suggests that modern humans may have left the African continent tens of thousands of years earlier than scientists had previously thought.
Researchers who published their findings in the journal Science on Thursday said the jaw, complete with several teeth, was between 177,000 and 194,000 years old.
The estimate indicates that the first Homo sapiens may have left Africa about 220,000 years ago — between 50,000 and 100,000 years earlier than previous fossil discoveries had suggested."
http://www.dw.com/en/israeli-fossil-shows-humans-left-africa-thousands-of-years-earlier-than-thought/a-42311845