Study claims to have found oldest human fossils

They seem to expand the time our species is known to have been around by some 100,000 years

In a surprising and controversial twist, the earliest known remains of our species have turned up in northwest Africa, scientists report.

Fossils on Homo sapiens have been unearthed together with stone tools at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. They date to some 300,000 years ago, an international team of scientists say. They offered their conclusions June 7 in two papers in Nature. 

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