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Tony WrightAssociate editor and special writer
June 4, 2021 9.55am
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The Lovett brothers were fresh back from the most ruinous war the world had seen when they felt they deserved a beer among the other returned soldiers of their district.
They set out on foot in the uniforms of the Australian Imperial Force that four of them Alfred, Leonard, Edward and Herbert had worn through desperate days on the Western Front in France and Belgium. The fifth brother, Frederick, wore the jaunty outfit of the light horseman he had been in Palestine. It was mid-1919.
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If you are blindfolded and grab an elephant’s tail, absent other clues you might think you’re the proud owner of a hairy snake. The more evidence you accrue, the closer to the truth you may approach. That’s the story of human evolution. All new evidence must be parsimoniously fit into the puzzle and where it flouts previous assumptions, the discredited assumptions, however credible when made, must be junked.
Now, what were thought to be signs of modern humans from as much as 120,000 years ago were actually signs of modern humans from around 16,000 years ago or less, claims a new paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.