Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Inside the lab rewriting the origins of humanity
How old is our species? This is the question anthropologists have been trying to find the answer to.
Homo sapiens, our distant ancestors, had been believed to have emerged around 200,000 years ago in eastern Africa until new fossils were found in Morocco, the opposite side of the continent lately. It’s quite a significant discovery because of the time and location. They are over 5,000 km apart. Though there wasn’t any dry dessert between them then, it is not a distance even Homo sapience could travel back and forth easily. Also, it was found that the newly discovered fossils are 300,000 years old, 100,000 years older than the previous estimate. Were Homo sapience had spread all around Africa by then?
One of the lead researchers mention, "Science is a sort of perpetual reworking of knowledge."
Enjoy reading and learning when and where our ancestors originated from.
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