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03/26/2008: "Humans in Europe longer than thought"

ANTHROPOLOGISTS delving into a cave in northeastern Spain announced today they had uncovered the earliest known remains of a human in Europe, a find that they dated to as much as 1.2 million years old.

The exceptional fossil strengthens the theory that humans, after emerging from their African home, struck out towards western Europe far earlier than thought, they said.

[ More divergence than we thought in the human family tree. ]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23438871-2,00.html