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The Oldest Homo sapiens in East Africa

The Omo 1 remains are at least 36,000 years older than once thought

Jan 12, 2022
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It is largely agreed upon that Homo sapiens originated in East Africa sometime around 200,000 years ago. Only eight sites in Africa have yielded Homo sapiens remains. A Nature paper in 2017 shook this all up with the discovery of 300,000-year-old Homo sapiens remains in what is now modern day Morocco1. We have since been reanalyzing the timing of the eme…

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