Earliest modern human found outside Africa

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>A skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to 210,000 years ago, at a time when Europe was occupied by the Neanderthals.

>The sensational discovery adds to evidence of an earlier migration of people from Africa that left no trace in the DNA of people alive today.

>The findings are published in the journal Nature.

>Researchers uncovered two significant fossils in Apidima Cave in Greece in the 1970s.

>One was very distorted and the other incomplete, however, and it took computed tomography scanning and uranium-series dating to unravel their secrets.

>The more complete skull appears to be a Neanderthal. But the other shows clear characteristics, such as a rounded back to the skull, diagnostic of modern humans.