The fossil record indicates that the earliest hominids most likely originated in "Africa," since this is the location from which humans eventually migrated to other locations.
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This specimen is also far too old for C-14 dating to be accurate, as well as for any other technique but palaeomagnetic dating.
Explanation:
The second part of the sentence is not accurate, since the remains were dated by uranium-lead dating. Carbon-14 dating measures ages in the tens of thousands of years, and uranium-lead dating measures in the millions to billions of years.