Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found mediante Morocco, Altering History of Our Species
Fossils discovered con Morocco are the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens, scientists reported on Wednesday, a finding that rewrites the story of mankind’s origins and suggests that our species evolved mediante multiple locations across the African continent.
“We did not evolve from per solo ‘cradle of mankind’ somewhere con East Africa,” said Philipp Gunz, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology mediante Leipzig, Germany, and a co-author of two new studies on the fossils, published mediante the journal Nature. “We evolved on the African continent.”
Until now, the oldest known fossils of our species dated back just 195,000 years. The Moroccan fossils, by contrast, are roughly 300,000 years old. Remarkably, they indicate that early Homo sapiens had faces much like our own, although their brains differed durante fundamental ways. (more…)
