This was an area in which early anatomically modern humans survived, evolved and thrived, before spreading out of Africa to other continents.
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It hasn’t been clear how common the species was on the Cape south coast because its body fossils are predominantly from southern Africa’s west coast.
A new study finds more than one early human species lived on the landscape in Northern Tanzania 3.66 million years ago. But there are reasons to be cautious about the findings.
