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Three partial skulls from Ethiopia are putting a face on the earliest modern humans. These ancestors were African, with big brains, robust features, and a taste for hippopotamus and buffalo meat. Dated to 154,000 to 160,000 years ago, the skulls are the first strong fossil evidence that modern humans originated in Africa.
