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An analysis of a 1.5 million-year-old vertebra from a human relative living in what is now Israel suggests that ancient humans dispersed out of Africa is multiple waves.

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The World: A Family History of Humanity. Alfred A. Knopf, 1304 pages, hardcover, bibliography available separately. The ...