Broken mastodon bones hint that Homo sapiens wasn’t the first hominin to get to the New World.
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Callaway, E. Controversial study claims humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.21886
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