Comment on "The earliest modern humans outside Africa".
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Abstract
Hershkovitz <i>et al</i> (Reports, 26 January 2018, p. 456) interpreted the Misliya-1 fossil maxilla as evidence of the earliest known anatomically modern human outside Africa. However, the fossil's reported age of 177,000 to 194,000 years relies on flawed interpretations of uranium-series data. We contend that those data support a minimum age of no more than ~60,000 to 70,000 years.
Medical subject headings
- Fossils
- Hominidae