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Researchers Find Skull Remains Pointing To First Hominids Out Of Africa

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida anthropologist is part of an international team whose discovery of early human skull remains in the Republic of Georgia represent the earliest known human ancestors from Eurasia and also may belong to the first hominid species to journey out of Africa. The findings will appear Friday in the journal Science.

Filed under Research, Natural History on Thursday, May 11, 2000.