These 773,000-year-old fossils may reveal our shared human ancestor

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Perfectly timed fossils from Morocco reveal a forgotten African population living near the very root of the human family tree.

Fossils dated with exceptional precision Sediments at Thomas Quarry I preserve a clear record of a major flip in Earth's magnetic field that occurred about 773,000 years ago. This natural timestamp allows scientists to pin down the age of these African hominin fossils with rare accuracy for the Pleistocene.
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