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Published online 16 February 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050214-10
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Ethiopia is top choice for cradle of Homo sapiens
Radioactive dating finds that fossil skulls are 195,000 years old.
Two Ethiopian fossils have been crowned as the oldest known members of our species. An estimated 195,000 years old, the pair were witness to the earliest days of Homo sapiens.
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