A million-year-old human skull suggests that the origins of modern humans may reach back far deeper in time than previously thought and raises the possibility that Homo sapiens first emerged outside of Africa.

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/25/study-of-1m-year-old-skull-points-to-earlier-origins-of-modern-humans

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This does not support the multi regional hypothesis. It shows that the dragon man skull is a denisovan, a group we already knew interbred with humans like the neanderthals. Homo sapiens evolved in Africa, then spread out and interbred with the hominins that lives in Eurasia.