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Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our Species (nytimes.com)
Carl Zimmer, writing for The New York Times: Fossils discovered in Morocco are the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens, scientists reported on Wednesday. Dating back roughly 300,000 years, the bones indicate that mankind evolved earlier than had been known, experts say, and open a new window on our origins. The fossils also show that early Homo sapiens had faces much like our own, although their brains differed in fundamental ways (alternative source). Until now, the oldest fossils of our species, found in Ethiopia, dated back just 195,000 years. The new fossils suggest our species evolved across Africa. "We did not evolve from a single cradle of mankind somewhere in East Africa," said Phillipp Gunz, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Liepzig, Germany. Today, the closest living relatives to Homo sapiens are chimpanzees and bonobos, with whom we share a common ancestor that lived over six million years ago. After the lineages split, our ancient relatives evolved into many different species, known as hominins. For millions of years, hominins remained very ape-like. They were short, had small brains, and could fashion only crude stone tools. Original research paper here.
How does a single species evolve in multiple places?
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For millions of years, hominins remained very ape-like. They were short, had small brains, and could fashion only crude stone tools.
They're still here. We just call them politicians now.
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Women didn't arrive on earth until much later, they stopped off to buy shoes first, and then had to use the restroom, apply sunscreen, return the shoes because of buyer's remorse, and then get an overpriced drink from StarBucks before coming to earth.
I think the real revelation from your unbelievable comment is just how fucking many Starbucks there are. I guess we know how there could be days before there was light; God was hanging out at Starbucks in between work sessions. I guess he saw that some burnt-ass coffee is good?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You're too kind. I print their post out and then I wipe my ass with it.
Posting on a fossil of a site about the sight of a fossil at a site.
Yeah, but what about Women?
Women didn't arrive on earth until much later, they stopped off to buy shoes first, and then had to use the restroom, apply sunscreen, return the shoes because of buyer's remorse, and then get an overpriced drink from StarBucks before coming to earth.
"I don't understand why I'm still a virgin".
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it