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773,000-Year-Old Hominin Fossils from Morocco Offer New Clues to Roots of Homo sapiens


The hominin fossils discovered in the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I in Casablanca, Morocco, are providing new evidence about the deep origins of Homo sapiens, suggesting that the ancestral lineage of modern humans was already present in Africa nearly 800,000 years ago.

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