Fossil jawbone from Israel is the oldest modern human found outside Africa
- Written by Rolf Quam, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Fossilized teeth from a modern human who lived in Israel close to 200,000 years ago.Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University, CC BY-ND
New fossil finds over the past few years have been forcing anthropologists to reexamine our evolutionary path to becoming human. Now the earliest modern human fossil ever found outside the continent of Africa is...
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