Technology & Science
773,000-Year-Old Moroccan Fossils Precisely Linked to Human Lineage Split
A Nature paper announced that hominin jaws and vertebrae from Casablanca’s Grotte à Hominidés were magnetostratigraphically pinned to the Matuyama–Brunhes reversal (≈773 ka), placing these North-African populations near the common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans.