The skull would become the oldest Homo Sapiens fossil found in Europe. Another skull dated to more than 170,000 years ago has a Neanderthal-like morphological pattern. "These results suggest that two human groups were present at the site; an early Homo sapiens population, followed by a Neander...
Dated to 154,000 to 160,000 years ago, skulls are the first strong fossil evidence that modern humans originated in Africa. These skulls belonged to two men and a child. Another half-dozen African fossils thought to be 130,000 to 300,000 years old are poorly dated or fragmentary, and ...
Researchers say that they have found the oldest Homo sapiens remains on record in an improbable place: Morocco. At an archaeological site near the Atlantic coast, finds of skull, face and jaw bones identified as being from early members of our species have been dated to about 315,000 years ...
The deep history of our species is murky, but a combination of genetic studies and fossil discoveries has let us piece together the basics. It was long thought thatHomo Sapienswas about 200,000 years old, and had remained on the African continent until between 90,000 and 120,000 years ...
(ka))11. Most of these have considerable age uncertainty or debatableH. sapiensapomorphy11. A principal method for constraining the fossil ages is the use of single-crystal40Ar/39Ar isotope dating applied to stratigraphically associated volcanic ash (tephra) beds12,13,14. However, many distal ...
aHomo sapiensfossil is dated to 160 thousand years ago. Until now, most researchers believed that all humans living today descended from a population that lived in East Africa around 200 thousand years ago. "We used to think that there was a cradle of mankind 200 thousand years ago in east...
A 210,000-year-old human skull could provide new evidence that our species left Africa much earlier than previously thought. A new study published in Nature of two fossils found in Greece in the 1970s shows that one of them is the oldest Homo sapiens spe
Turkana BoyAn almost complete 1.5-million-year-oldHomo erectusfossil was found by Kenya’s Lake Turkana in 1984. The species spread as far as Java, and may be our direct ancestors. Neanderthal 1The first recognised Neanderthal wasfound in 1856 in Germany’s Neander valley.It didn’t get ...
But a date of 765,000 years ago actuallybrings the DNA evidence more in linewith some recent fossil interpretations that also suggest an older divergence between modern humans and the ancestor of the Neanderthals and Denisovans. “I am very happy to see that ideas about the divergence base...
, geometric morphometrics, biomechanical indicators, etc. These data were compared to those of a relatively large sample of extant and fossil apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, Miocene apes, and members of the human group (Orrorin,Ardipithecus, australopithecines, ancientHomo,Homo sapiens)....