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Article: Found: Skulls of the first modern humans; REMARKABLE 160,000-YEAR-OLD FOSSILS.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2003
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Byline: GERAINT SMITH
THE oldest known fossils of modern humans have been found, scientists said today. The skulls of two adults - one man and one too badly fragmented to discern the sex - and one child, have been dated at 160,000 years old.
They were probably among the first modern humans to walk the planet and are being hailed as some of the most significant human fossils ever discovered.
Approximately 60,000 years earlier than any remains of modern man previously found, they show a mix of "fully fledged" modern features - notably a high forehead and lack of brow ridges - with more primitive characteristics from earlier species of human. They ...