April 12, 2018
(AFP) - A lone finger bone unearthed in the desert suggests modern humans had penetrated deep into Arabia already 85,000 years ago, said a study on April 9, 2018 advancing the date of our species' African emigration by millennia.
According to the long-held consensus view, humans started leaving our birthplace on the African continent en masse only about 60,000 years ago.