Morocco: ancient fossils shed light on a key period in human evolution

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Morocco: ancient fossils shed light on a key period in human evolution

The discovery points to a long evolutionary history in north Africa, much earlier than modern Homo sapiens.

theconversation.com

Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last common ancestor of present-day humans (Homo sapiens), Neanderthals and Denisovans.
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Excavations have been underway since 1994 in the Hominid Cave at the Thomas Quarry I, south-west of the city of Casablanca in Morocco.


(Nature) Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage