Study of 1m-Year-Old Skull Points to Earlier Origins of Modern Humans
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A new study of a 1M-year-old skull suggests that modern humans may have originated earlier than previously thought, with the single comment on the post raising questions about the implications and potential controversies of this finding.
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ChrisArchitect
3 months ago
If all of you skull people got together we might have something: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...
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