DNA from old skeleton suggests humanity’s been here longer than we thought0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- October 5, 2017
There are a lot of caveats, but a Stone Age genome makes humanity look old.
There are a lot of caveats, but a Stone Age genome makes humanity look old.
This undated photo provided by Raffaello Pellizzon in December 2016 shows fossilized footprints of a human ancestor, believed to be Australopithecus afarensis, at the Laetoli site in northern Tanzania. Findings were described in a report released Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, by the journal eLife.
Foot for thought.
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