<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hublin, Jean-Jacques</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ben-Ncer, Abdelouahed</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bailey, Shara E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Freidline, Sarah E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neubauer, Simon</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Skinner, Matthew M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bergmann, Inga</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Le Cabec, Adeline</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benazzi, Stefano</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Harvati, Katerina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gunz, Philipp</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nature</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017/06/08/print</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature22336</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">546</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">289 - 292</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0028-0836</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div class=&quot;first-paragraph&quot; id=&quot;first-paragraph&quot;&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fossil evidence points to an African origin of &lt;i&gt;Homo sapiens&lt;/i&gt; from a group called either &lt;i&gt;H. heidelbergensis&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;H. rhodesiensis&lt;/i&gt;. However, the exact place and time of emergence of &lt;i&gt;H. sapiens&lt;/i&gt; remain obscure because the fossil record is scarce and the chronological age of many key specimens remains uncertain. In particular, it is unclear whether the present day ‘modern’ morphology rapidly emerged approximately 200 thousand years ago (ka) among earlier representatives of &lt;i&gt;H. sapiens&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7657/full/nature22336.html#ref1&quot; id=&quot;ref-link-13&quot; title=&quot; progress and prospects. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 357, 563–579 (2002)&quot;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; or evolved gradually over the last 400 thousand years&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7657/full/nature22336.html#ref2&quot; id=&quot;ref-link-14&quot; title=&quot; by speciation or intraspecific evolution? Evol. Anthropol. 17, 22–37 (2008)&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. Here we report newly discovered human fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and interpret the affinities of the hominins from this site with other archaic and recent human groups. We identified a mosaic of features including facial, mandibular and dental morphology that aligns the Jebel Irhoud material with early or recent anatomically modern humans and more primitive neurocranial and endocranial morphology. In combination with an age of 315 ± 34 thousand years (as determined by thermoluminescence dating)&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7657/full/nature22336.html#ref3&quot; id=&quot;ref-link-15&quot; title=&quot;//dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature22335 (2017)&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, this evidence makes Jebel Irhoud the oldest and richest African Middle Stone Age hominin site that documents early stages of the &lt;i&gt;H. sapiens&lt;/i&gt; clade in which key features of modern morphology were established. Furthermore, it shows that the evolutionary processes behind the emergence of &lt;i&gt;H. sapiens&lt;/i&gt; involved the whole African continent.&lt;/p&gt;
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