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Re:120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans ... by Quarrel on Saturday September 19, 2020 @09:26AM (#24527265)
Very cool.

This tracks pretty well with the earliest times talked about now for people in Australia. Somewhere in that ballpark people needed to be walking out of Africa so they could end up in Australia.

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Re:120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans ... by menybuvico on Saturday September 19, 2020 @09:34AM (#24527312)
Yep. There most likely were multiple waves of emigration from Africa. It's just that the most recent one is the one that made the largest impression in the gene pool.
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Re:120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans ... by dorfsmay on Saturday September 19, 2020 @01:05PM (#24528849)
120 k years ago on Australia? Are we talking homo erectus here, or full blown homo sapiens?
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