Bones found in a cave in Morocco add 100,000 years to the history of human fossils. These bones are from "early anatomically modern" humans — our own species, Homo sapiens, with a mixture of modern and primitive traits, an international team of anthropologists, paleontologists and evolutionary scientists report in a pair of papers published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Despite their primitive features, these ancient people could blend in with a modern crowd, particularly if hats covered their somewhat oddly-shaped heads.
The oldest Homo sapiens bones known until now date to about 200,000 years ago, but the new analysis shows these bones are surprisingly ancient: 300,000 to 350,000 years old.
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | Science Alert | Wed., Jun. 07, 2017 1:01 p.m. | | | | | | The oldest Homo sapiens fossils ever discovered push back evidence of our species by 100,000 years | Bones found in a cave in Morocco add 100,000 years to the history of human fossils. These bones are from "early anatomically modern" humans — our own species, Homo sapiens, with a mixture of modern and primitive traits, an international team of anthropologists, paleontologists and evolutionary scientists report in a pair of papers published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Despite their primitive features, these ancient people could blend in with a modern crowd, particularly if hats covered their somewhat oddly-shaped heads.
The oldest Homo sapiens bones known until now date to about 200,000 years ago, but the new analysis shows these bones are surprisingly ancient: 300,000 to 350,000 years old. | | Read more » | | | |
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