Are Modern Humans Really Older Than We Thought?
Until recently, fossil evidence for modern humans has only gone back 200000 years. A new discovery in Morocco and thermoluminescence dating may help extend that beyond 300000 years. Hosted...
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You and I might be older than we thought. Not us personally— us as in Homo sapiens, or anatomically modern humans. That’s a term that refers to someone whose bone structure falls within the range of humans alive today. Someone who wouldn’t look too out of place if you just saw them walking down the street. For a long time, fossil evidence for anatomically modern humans went back less than two hundred thousand years. But an international team of researchers, publishing this month in the journal Nature, have found what they’re calling early Homo sapiens fossils that are around three hundred thousand years old, at a site called Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. This research has been making headlines as a scientific breakthrough, but it’s a little bit more c...
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You and I might be older than we thought. Not us personally— us as in Homo sapiens, or anatomically modern humans. That’s a term that refers to someone whose bone structure falls within the range of humans alive today. Someone who wouldn’t look too out of place if you just saw them walking down the street. For a long time, fossil evidence for anatomically modern humans went back less than two hundred thousand years. But an international team of researchers, publishing this month in the journal Nature, have found what they’re calling early Homo sapiens fossils that are around three hundred thousand years old, at a site called Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. This research has been making headlines as a scientific breakthrough, but it’s a little bit more c...
