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Modern humans left Africa much earlier
BBC ^ | 25 January 2018 | Pallab Ghosh

Posted on 01/26/2018 12:56:22 AM PST by Pharmboy

Researchers have identified the remains of the earliest known modern humans to have left Africa.

New dating of fossils from Israel indicates that our species (Homo sapiens) lived outside Africa around 185,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than the previous evidence.

Details appear in the journal Science.

The co-lead researcher, Prof Israel Hershkovitz, told BBC News that the discovery would fundamentally alter ideas of recent human evolution.

"We have to rewrite the whole story of human evolution, not just for our own species but all the other species that lived outside of Africa at the time," the researcher, from Tel Aviv University, explained.

Prof Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum, who was not involved in the study, said: "The find breaks the long-established 130,000-year-old limit on modern humans outside of Africa.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; evolution; human; ooa
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Indeed.
1 posted on 01/26/2018 12:56:22 AM PST by Pharmboy
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However, the early excursions into Eurasia by African Homo sapiens represented at Misliya are generally thought to have ended in extinction. Findings from genetics and archaeology suggest that present-day people living outside Africa trace their ancestry to an exodus just 60,000 years ago. Most DNA studies have failed to find evidence of these older migrations in our genes.

They may have looked somewhat modern, but not intelligent enough to survive.

2 posted on 01/26/2018 1:13:06 AM PST by iowamark
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As usual, I stopped reading when the article mentioned that humans were around 80,000 to 185,000 years ago.

No proof, just a screwed up theory like Global Warming.

Neither of which can be proved.

Yet they claim they need proof God exists, and there is more evidence of God existing than there is for their screwed up theories.


3 posted on 01/26/2018 1:14:18 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a humble Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Pharmboy

Can you blame them?


4 posted on 01/26/2018 1:17:11 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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Amazing. Even 185,000 years ago there were people who knew Africa was a shithole and wanted out of there.


5 posted on 01/26/2018 1:17:45 AM PST by sipow
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It was a dark gloomy day in April when the mid-day pause came up and Larry said to Marvin while gazing at the African plains...”We gotta get out of this sithole”.

Marvin kinda agreed, saying...”Anyplace would be better than this”.

So Larry and Marvin picked up their bags, told the wives of their desire to leave, and everyone hauled off to Europe. 180,000 years have passed, and Marvin would happily say (if alive today), that was the best decision of his life.


6 posted on 01/26/2018 1:28:42 AM PST by pepsionice
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LOL


7 posted on 01/26/2018 1:39:40 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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...and the Prof’s name is Stringer...like in along


8 posted on 01/26/2018 1:41:39 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Pharmboy

#sh**hole


9 posted on 01/26/2018 2:09:48 AM PST by cranked
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To: OneVike

Proof is in human mitochondrial DNA which goes back 250,000 years. There are numerous peer-reviewed studies documenting this all over the web.


10 posted on 01/26/2018 2:13:24 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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We left because it was a $hithole!


11 posted on 01/26/2018 2:43:17 AM PST by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfef)
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They obviously had some seers who predicted what would happen to Africa....


12 posted on 01/26/2018 4:08:38 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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Humans soon realized that Africa was a ****hole they needed to escape from.


13 posted on 01/26/2018 5:47:22 AM PST by C19fan
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Even back then they wanted out of sh*thole places...😀
14 posted on 01/26/2018 5:55:15 AM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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Even long before 185,000 years ago, the ancestors of the Neanderthals (Homo heidelbergensis) had gotten out of Africa and were in Europe.

Maybe the earlier Homo sapiens emigrants from Africa encountered Neanderthals...and were killed and eaten by them (tasty...). Later Homo sapiens were meaner and smarter and killed off the Neanderthals.

Just speculating...

15 posted on 01/26/2018 6:28:34 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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Yea, and thousands of so-called scientists tell us that Global Warming created by man is a fact.

Go bark up another tree, I don’t by into pseudo science nor pseudo geology.

To claim what you believe is to disbelieve in God. Too much evidence proves otherwise.

I believe in God. You go ahead and put man’s wisdom over God, and I’ll pray for you.


16 posted on 01/26/2018 6:42:35 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a humble Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Cowboy Bob

They’re still leaving Africa for Sweden, UK, etc


17 posted on 01/26/2018 8:36:40 AM PST by nobamanomore
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“To claim what you believe is to disbelieve in God.”

No. It is not. It is to believe that however God created the universe, He did it in a way that left the fossil record behind.


18 posted on 01/26/2018 9:08:47 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: OneVike

So bitter are you, sad.


19 posted on 01/26/2018 11:55:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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So we’re all African-Americans now, where’s my Reparations?


20 posted on 01/26/2018 11:56:54 AM PST by dfwgator
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