Incredible fossil discovery rewrites the history of human migration out of Africa

Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a modern human outside of Africa in Misliya Cave near Carmel, Israel. The discovery by an international research team, including scientists from Tel Aviv University, Binghamton University, and the State University of New York, reveals that modern humans left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously believed. "[The fossil] provides the clearest evidence yet that our ancestors first migrated out of Africa much earlier than we previously...

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