The discovery of the Misliya Cave hominin in the Middle East sent shock-waves through the world of paleoanthropology. A single upper jaw with teeth, dated to around 194,000 years ago, suggested that Homo sapiens, or at least a population strikingly similar to them, had left Africa far earlier than previously thought..

But was this truly an "exit," or could it have been the remnants of a larger, "Lost population" that had already spread across parts of Asia? Could this population have even migrated into Africa, rather than the other way around?

SOURCES:

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-jawbone-suggests-our-species-left-africa-40000-years-earlier-expected

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/oldest-modern-human-fossil-israel-05667.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248422001397

https://nutcrackerman.com/2021/05/09/searching-origins-lineage-6-african-skulls-late-middle-pleistocene/

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