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Article: Earliest Homo sapiens fossils discovered in Ethiopia.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- July 7, 2003
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2003 JUL 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley along with researchers from Ethiopia and several other countries have uncovered fossils of the earliest modern human, Homo sapiens, estimated at 154,000 to 160,000 years old.
According to the scientists, the findings provide strong evidence that H. sapiens and Neanderthals co-existed, rather than the former descending from the latter.
In two articles appearing in the June 12, 2003, edition of the journal Nature, the authors describe the fossilized crania of two adults and a child uncovered at the Herto village in the Middle Awash study area of Ethiopia, ...