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Human fossils found in Morocco challenge our understanding of evolution

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/science/human-fossils-mor...

June 2017 news by NY Times.

They did not even change the photo I think.

So many breakthrough findings changing everything we know about human evolution.

It's like JavaScript frameworks, I just can't keep up. Am waiting for the dust to settle then will read the "final" article. (Or the one after that).

Meanwhile, reptiles lived for 180 million years.

"Challenge Evolution" seems to be a misleading title.

The actual title from TFA is "300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco challenge our understanding of evolution".

Could one of the mods alter the title please?

Sorry about that, I couldn't include the full title in the submission. I figured it was the best I could do, because if we challenge our understanding of evolution, haven't we also challenged what evolution is? I'm happy with any better suggestions though!

Increase the allowable title length? :)

"New human fossils reframe our evolutionary history"

Even if the findings challenge what evolution is (which doesn’t seem to be the case — the course of human evolution is only one of millions of species over the years), the wording “challenges evolution” suggests that the findings cast the theory of evolution itself into doubt, which they clearly do not.

As far as a way to save character count to include a more accurate title, eliminating the “300,000-year-old” part seems like it would work.

> 300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco challenge evolution

“300k year old human fossils found in Morocco challenge human evolution timeline”

This isn't challenging our understanding of evolution, but it is challenging the timeline... those are two different things.

"300,000-year-old human fossils found in Morocco. Evolution! Updated." :P

Sure.

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