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Contrary1

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Fri Oct 16, 2015, 03:43 AM Oct 2015

Ancient teeth found in China challenge modern human migration theory

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[font size =1] These 47 teeth, estimated to be between 80,000 and 120,000 years old, were found in a cave in Dao county, Hunan province in China.[/font size]


Scientists in southern China have discovered human teeth dating back at least 80,000 years -- 20,000 years earlier than modern humans were previously believed to have left Africa to migrate around the world.

The 47 teeth were found in a cave in Daoxian, in China's Hunan province, and are the strongest proof yet that modern humans first migrated from Africa to Asia 80,000 to 120,000 years ago, according to a study published in the journal, Nature.

"This is stunning, it's major league," Michael Petraglia, an archaeologist from the University of Oxford in the UK, who was not involved in the study, told Nature. "It's one of the most important finds coming out of Asia in the last decade."

Out of Africa

The widely accepted theory of modern human migration, known as "Out of Africa," is based on available scientific evidence that indicates modern humans originated in Africa and made their first successful migration to the rest of the world in a single wave between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago.

These teeth challenge that theory, both in terms of the timing of the first migration from Africa and whether a different group of modern humans evolved separately in Asia.

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