A fossil skull discovered in 1952 offers support for the hypothesis that Upper Paleolithic Eurasians descendedfrom a population that emigrated from sub-Saharan Africa inthe Late Pleistocene. In tomorrow's Science, Fred Grine and co-workers describe a South African skull dated to 36.2 ± 3.3 thousand years, and note that while the skull is morphologically modern overall, its strongest morphometricaffinities are with Upper Paleolithic Eurasians ratherthan
recent, geographically proximate people.
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