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Nature 423, 692-695 (12 June 2003) | doi:10.1038/423692a
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Human evolution: Out of Ethiopia
Chris Stringer
Abstract
Newly discovered fossils from Ethiopia provide fresh evidence for the 'out of Africa' model for the origin of modern humans, and raise new questions about the precise pattern of human evolution.
The idea that modern humans originated in Africa, with populations subsequently spreading outwards from there, has continued to gain support lately. But much of that support has come from analyses of genetic variation in people today1, and from fossil and archaeological discoveries dated to within the past 120,000 years2, 3 — after our species evolved.
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