The world’s oldest story — the tale of our human origins — is undergoing continental drift. The revelation last week that the oldest Homo sapiens fossils had been unearthed in Morocco, the latest in a string of sensational discoveries, challenges east Africa’s crown as the cradle of humankind. Rather than flowering in isolation like a prized shrub before spreading elsewhere, sapiens quite possibly popped up all over the place.
世界上最古老的故事——有關人類起源的故事——正在經歷大陸漂移。不久前有訊息稱,在摩洛哥發現了最古老的智人化石——這是一連串轟動性發現中的最新一個。這個訊息挑戰了非洲東部作爲人類搖籃的至高無上地位。智人並非像一叢珍貴的灌木那樣,先在與外界隔絕的地方開出花朵,然後才傳播到別處,而非常可能是突然出現在地球的各個角落。
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