Remains from Morocco dated to 315,000 years ago push back our species' origins by 100,000 years — and suggest we didn't evolve only in East Africa.
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Callaway, E. Oldest Homo sapiens fossil claim rewrites our species' history. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.22114
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