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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Human Fossils Dated to 195,000 Years. Researchers determined that the specimens are around 195,000 years old. A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago, in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago, perhaps close to the dawn of t
2、he species.Researchers determined that the specimens are around 195,000 years old. Previously, the oldest kwn fossils of Homo sapiens were Ethiopian skulls dated to about 160,000 years ago.Genetic studies estimate that Homo sapiens arose about 200,000 years ago, so the new research brings the fossil
3、 record more in line with that, said Flagel of Stony Brook University in New York, an author of the study.The fossils were found in 1967 near the Omro River in southwestern Ethiopia. One location yielded Omro I, which includes part of a skull plus skeletal bones. Ather site produced Omro
4、II, which has more of a skull but no skeletal bones. Neither specimen has a complete face.Although Omro II shows more primitive characteristics than Omro I, scientists called both specimens Homo sapiens and assigned a tentative age of 130,000 years.Now, after visiting the discovery sites, analyzing
5、their geology and testing rock samples with more modern dating techniques, Flagel and colleagues report in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature that both specimens are 195,000 years old, give or take 5,000 years.Flagel said the more primitive traits of Omro II may mean the two specimens came f
6、rom different but overlapping Homo sapiens populations, or that they just represent natural variation within a single population.To find the age of the skulls, the researchers determined that volcanic rock lying just below the sediment that contained the fossils was about 196,000 years old. They the
7、n found evidence that the fossil-bearing sediment was deposited soon after that time. Rene, director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, which specializes in dating rocks, said the researchers made "a reasonably good argument" to support their dating of the fossils."It's more likely than not," he said, calling the work "very exciting and important."专心-专注-专业
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