A scrap of skull collected in 1978 and stored for decades in an Athens museum may rewrite the timeline of when Homo sapiens left our ancestral African homeland.
Scientists Find the Oldest Human Skull Outside of Africa
#23 in our top science stories of 2019.
Dec 25, 2019 4:00 PM
Digital models (left and center) of the skull fragment, which is still partly encased in rock (right). (Credit:
Katerina Harvati, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)
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