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Africa and the Many Cradles of Humanity

Tides of History

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The New Dating of the Jebelihud Fossils

Jebelihud fossils are archaic looking, with a more pronounced brow ridge than a people and an elongated brain case. But they're definitely not neanderatalls or anything else. If you passed one of the people from jeblihod on the street, you probably wouldn't look twice at them. All of these specimens are much closer to us, modern homosapians, than they are to any other archaic hominin that we know of. According to the paleo anthropologist john hawks, they show more diversity than exists to day between any population of humans. They're actually more diverse than neandertall schools. Neandertals lived everywhere from

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