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Science 5 July 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5578, pp. 26 - 27
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5578.26
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Were 'Little People' the First to Venture Out of Africa?

Michael Balter and Ann Gibbons

On page 85 of this issue, a team reports the discovery of a 1.75-million-year-old skull that is the smallest and most primitive ever found outside Africa. Along with two equally ancient skulls reported 2 years ago, researchers say, the fossils appear to bury the notion that big brains spurred our first exodus from Africa, and they raise questions about the identity of the first long-distance traveler.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)