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Originally Posted by Xellos-_^
no it doesn't, all that does if the finding is true is that the date for human expansion was earlier then we thought.
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^^Xellos is right. The 'discovery' is nothing right now, until further study. Even then, unless we can get more remains than a tooth it likely won't have any impact on the modern Out of Africa theory. The idea that it belongs to modern humans is also bizarre because if it does belong to modern humans then that means humans coexisted with Homo Erectus for hundreds of thousands of years. Why is that so strange? The exact same diet, likely similar style of hunting... Erectus would be outcompeted and driven to extinction a lot more quickly than they were if humans sprung up that early.