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Out of Ethiopia

Nature volume 423, pages 693–695 (2003)Cite this article

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.

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Figure 1: Origin of our species.

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