We may be much older than we thought‚ and our lineage might not be as simple as postulated. New fossils found in Morocco have pegged Homo sapiens at 100,000 years older than previously thought. They were found several thousand kilometres away from an area of East Africa that has long been considered by some experts as "the cradle of mankind". Jean-Jacques Hublin‚ one of the scientists leading the research done by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology‚ said in a statement: "They are not just like‚ but they had basically the face you could meet on the train in New York."
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