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Moroccan fossils shake up understanding of human origins

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The understanding of human origins was turned on its head on Wednesday with the announcement of the discovery of fossils unearthed on a Moroccan hillside that are about 100,000 years older than any other known remains of our species, Homo sapiens. [Source]

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Topics: origins, human, understanding, fossils, Moroccan, sapiens, species, remains, known, older, years, hillside, unearthed, discovery, announcement, turned, (Reuters), WASHINGTON, shake

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/k4WlLqIvv34/us-science-humans-idUSKBN18Y2IV