The third-oldest known example of modern humanity—a 210,000-years-old Homo sapiens skull—came from a cave in southern Greece
fossils are so rare that each new discovery may rewrite the textbooks. A chance find two years ago in Morocco, for example, pushed the origin ofback to at least 315,000 years ago, from a previous minimum of 260,000 years based on remains found in South Africa. Now, as they report in this week’sHomo sapiensKaterina Harvati of the University of Tübingen, in Germany, and her colleagues found the relevant skull fragment not in the ground, but in a museum in Athens.
But what has excited attention is that it is also the oldestspecimen found outside Africa—the continent where, according to all the available evidence, the species originated.spread from Africa to dominate the world is a story that once looked simple, but is getting rapidly more complex.
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