Where We Come From
Recent advances in genetics are starting to illuminate the wanderings of early humans
By Nancy Shute
Posted 1/21/01
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Found: Monte Verde, Chile
Dated: 14,800 years ago
Red ocher burial
Found: Mungo National Park, Australia
Dated: about 60,000 years ago
Early Homo sapiens skull
Found: Omo River, Ethiopia
Dated: 125,000 years ago
Sources: Douglas Wallace, Michael Brown, and Marie Lott, Emory University; David Anderson, Paula Dunbar, NOAA; Theodore Schurr, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research; The Human Career
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