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Ethiopia is top choice for cradle of Homo sapiens

Radioactive dating finds that fossil skulls are 195,000 years old.

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Hopkin, M. Ethiopia is top choice for cradle of Homo sapiens. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news050214-10

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