- The Masol findings, if true, could complicate or deepen the out-of-Africa migration theory
- It would make Masol in the Shivaliks, 20 km from Chandigarh, Asia’s oldest anthropological site
- The Indo-French discovery could push back out-of-Africa migrations by about 5,00,000 years
- Tells us more on how and when we started looking and behaving like homo sapiens rather than apes
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Masol, an inconspicuous village tucked away in the lower reaches of the Shivaliks in Punjab with a smattering of vegetation, has raised a question fundamental to our existence: where and when did the first member of our species walk on this earth? Is it possible that ‘modern humans’ emerged first in Asia, or more precisely, what is present-day India, and not Africa, as is widely believed across the world? And that, too, half-a-million years before the point where the evolutionary timeline is said to have ticked off going by the fossilised evidence in Africa?
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