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A N African sister population to #Homoantecessor, at the base of #Homosapiens lineage, over three quarters of a million years old: hominin fossils from the site of Thomas Quarry I (Casablanca, Morocco)

https://www.mpg.de/25951868/0105-evan-early-hominins-from-thomas-quarry-i-morocco-150495-x?c=2249

Early hominins from Morocco reveal an African lineage near the root of Homo sapiens

Study pinpoints 773,000-year-old fossils with high-resolution magnetostratigraphic dating, illuminating the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans

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Radical Anthropology Jan 7

Paper here
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09914-y

Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage - Nature

New hominin fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I (ThI-GH) in Casablanca, Morocco, dated to around 773 thousand years ago are similar in age to Homo antecessor, yet are morphologically distinct.

Nature

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Radical Anthropology Jan 8

Thoughts from #ChrisStringer here