Australia’s Oldest Human Remains
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Australia’s oldest human remains are 40,000 years old, not 62,000, as had previously been believed, researchers from the University of Melbourne reported in Thursday’s issue of Nature. The revised age for the remains, found in southeast Australia, fits much better with the theory that early humans evolved in Africa and subsequently migrated to the rest of the world. The now-discredited older date had supported the idea that different groups of humans evolved independently.
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