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| | First Humans in Australia Dated to 50,000 Years Ago (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Mungo Man and Mungo Lady, as they are known to the local Aborigines, both died and were buried around 40,000 years ago, reports a team of scientists. |
 | | Archaeological, fossil, and genetic evidence support the "Out of Africa" model of modern human origins, which holds that all modern humans evolved in Africa, and then went on to populate the rest of the world, driving earlier hominid species to extinction. |
 | | Around 50,000 years ago, whether because of a sudden genetic modification, or simply the accumulation of skills over a period of 70,000 years, humans began to migrate out of Africa. |
| news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/02/0224_030224_mungoman.html (723 words) |
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