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New data from Ubeidiya, a prehistoric site in the Jordan Valley, suggests that at least two hominin species left Africa together more than 1.9 million years ago
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While the present-day news cycle can often feel exhausting and impossible to keep up with, you might think that not much news can emerge from two million years ago. But you would be wrong. In a whirlwind of discoveries, researchers are rewriting some of the earliest chapters in the story of human evolution at breakneck speed. New findings are pushing back the time when humanity first left Africa, while suggesting that the inaugural foray from our evolutionary cradle was made by two different hominin species, rather than one.
