We have known for several years that
Homo sapiens, modern humans, migrated from Africa into the adjacent areas of Asia, the areas we now call the “Middle East.” In the Middle East they mixed, about 30.000 years ago, with
Homo neanderthalis to create the humanity we now see across Eaurasia, Australia and the Americas.
The hybrids settled in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates where they created the first civilizations while others of the hybrids also migrated back into Africa where they also gave rise to Nile civilizations. But, where did the original humans, the residents of the Garden of Eden, appear? These humans were the ancestors of all humans … the first Homo sapiens first arise? New fossils from Morocco push the evidence back too 300,000 years!
The undated artist rendering provided by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology shows two views of a composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils. The oldest known fossils of human species have been unearthed in Morocco, revealing an early evolutionary step toward developing the fully modern human body. (Philipp Gunz/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology via AP) (Associated Press) By Malcolm Ritter | AP June 7 at 1:12 PM
Previously Homo sapiens found in Ethiopia, were about 195,000 years old. The Moroccan finds reveals people, people able to make stone tools, from an early stage of our species’ evolution, with a mix of modern and more primitive traits.
“They are not just like us, basically the face you could meet on the train in New York.” said Jean-Jacques Hublin, one of the scientists reporting the find.Hublin and others described the new findings in two papers released Wednesday by the journal Nature . The discovery could help illuminate how our species evolved, Chris Stringer and Julia Galway-Witham of the Natural History Museum in London wrote in a Nature commentary.
300,000 year old remains of 5 people, including an 8 year old child found in a cave in Morocco