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Homo Sapien

World's oldest Homo sapiens fossils found in MoroccoNew fossils and dating put a face on the first of our kind

Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa - NatureGeochemical analyses correlating the stratum that overlies the sediments containing the Omo fossils with material from a volcanic eruption suggest that these fossils (the oldest known modern human fossils in eastern Africa) are over 200,000 years old.

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Earliest known Homo sapiens in Eurasia found in GreeceScientists identified a skull from the Apidima site, southern Greece, as early Homo sapiens and dated it to about 210,000 years ago.

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Early presence of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia by 86–68 kyr at Tam Pà Ling, Northern Laos - Nature CommunicationsHere the authors report new human fossils from Tam Pà Ling cave, Laos, consisting of a cranial and a tibial fragment, dated to 68–86 thousand years ago. This find confirms that Homo sapiens were present in Southeast Asia by this time and the shape of the fossils indicates they may have descended from non-local populations.

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Homo sapiens is Still Evolving, New Study Shows | Sci.NewsA team of scientists from Greece and Ireland has discovered 155 new human genes that spontaneously arose from tiny DNA sections.

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