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Southern Africa: Origins of Modern Man Revealed - Africa Is in Us All
Daily Maverick, 29 October 2019
It might have been our original Eden, a place teeming with game and blessed with an abundance of water, that was all but forgotten as time passed and humans moved on. But now this… Read more »
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Southern Africa: The Homeland of Modern Humans
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, 29 October 2019
A landmark study pinpoints the birthplace of modern humans in southern Africa and suggests how past climate shifts drove their first migration. Read more »
Landmark Study Cites Southern Africa as Homeland of Modern Humans
A study published in the prestigious journal Nature has found that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans emerged in a southern African 'homeland' and thrived there for 70,000 years before climate change triggered the first human explorations, which initiated the development of humans' genetic, ethnic and cultural diversity.
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Lucy, the famed partial skeleton found in Ethiopia in 1974, has a new companion - a male skull found just 55 kilometres from her resting place, which scientists say helps to fill a ... Read more »
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New dating techniques used by a multi-national team of scientists suggest that the famous South African fossil named Little Foot, belonging to the species Australopithecus ... Read more »
