Study of fossil teeth suggests earlier split from Neanderthals

New analysis by Dr Aida Gomez-Robles (UCL Anthropology) on the dental evolutionary rates of Neanderthals suggests modern humans diverged from the lineage at least 800,000 years ago – 400,000 years earlier than previously thought.

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