Newly discovered fossils from Ethiopia provide fresh evidence for the 'out of Africa' model for the origin of modern humans, and raise new questions about the precise pattern of human evolution.
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Stringer, C. Out of Ethiopia. Nature 423, 693â695 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423692a
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