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title: Are Modern Humans Really Older Than We Thought? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/are-modern-humans-really-older-than-we-thought/
date: 2017-06-16
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# Are Modern Humans Really Older Than We Thought?

Until recently, fossil evidence for modern humans has only gone back 200,000 years. A new discovery in Morocco and thermoluminescence dating may help extend that beyond 300,000 years.