February 01, 2012

Home sapiens: evolution's lucky mongrel

The linked article usefully summarizes findings already made public last year.

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The tip of a girl's 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is helping scientists draw a surprisingly complex new picture of human origins. The new view is fast supplanting the traditional idea that modern humans triumphantly marched out of Africa about 50,000 years ago, replacing all other types that had gone before...
from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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