Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
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Director of Strategic Communications, Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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PhD Candidate, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Professor and Chair, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Senior Researcher at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research and Adjunct Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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SUNY Distinguished Professor of History, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Curator of Human Evolution of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Professor of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Clinical Professor of Periodontics and Endodontics, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Harvard MCZ Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Professor of Technology and Society, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Associate Professor of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)