Human migration from Africa 60k years earlier than previously thought

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2...africa/9357276

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Modern humans were wandering out of Africa at least 180,000 years ago — some 60,000 years earlier than previously thought. Until now, the oldest evidence for modern humans outside Africa were only 90,000 to 120,000 years old. The fossil jaw and tools, presented on Friday in the journal Science, challenges currently accepted ideas about how modern humans dispersed from Africa, according to Peter Hiscock, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney.

There's a weirdly convoluted "ha! That that, religion!" thread on this in the Religion section, but I thought there might be more interesting and/or productive conversation of this as the scientific find it is, so I'm re-posting it here.

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