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Chinese Find Suggests Human Relatives Left Africa Earlier

Stone tools recovered from an excavation in China suggest that our evolutionary forerunners trekked out of Africa earlier than we thought. Until now, the oldest evidence of human-like creatures outside Africa came from 1.8 million-year-old artifacts and skulls found in the Georgian town of Dmanisi. But the new find pushes that back by at least 250,000 years. “It's absolutely a new story,” said archaeologist Michael Petraglia of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human...


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