{"id":358,"date":"2003-02-25T03:37:01","date_gmt":"2003-02-25T03:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:17","slug":"younger-mungo-backs-out-of-africa-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"younger mungo backs \u201cout of africa\u201d theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mungo Man, Australia&#8217;s oldest known human remains,  is 20,000 years younger than previously thought, according to James  Bowler of the University of Melbourne and colleagues in the Feb. 20 <em> Nature.<\/em> Mungo Man was discovered at Lake Mungo in New South Wales in  1974, and though his age has been debated for some time, the most recent  estimate put it at 60,000 years. Bowler amassed a team of experts from  all over Australia to achieve a final consensus on Mungo Man&#8217;s age.  Using multiple methods, including an analysis of the sand and soil from  the burial site, and four separate dating laboratories, the team came up  with a new age of 40,000 years. The previous date was often given out  as a serious challenge to the &#8220;Out of Africa&#8221; theory of human migration,  which states that early humans from Africa colonized other parts of the  globe around 50,000 years ago. Mungo Man&#8217;s revised age is now seen to  support that theory. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 2\/25\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mungo Man, Australia&#8217;s oldest known human remains, is 20,000 years younger than previously thought, according to James Bowler of the University of Melbourne and colleagues in the Feb. 20 Nature. Mungo Man was discovered at Lake Mungo in New South &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}