Views of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro-computed scans of multiple original fossils. Dated to 300,000 years ago, these early Homo sapiens already have a modern-looking face that falls within the variation of humans living today. However, the archaic-looking virtual imprint of the braincase (blue) indicates that brain shape, and possibly brain function, evolved within the Homo sapiens lineage. Sophisticated analyses of their facial structures suggested they were clearly Homo sapiens, not Neanderthals or any other extinct hominin. “There probably are older modern human fossils in Africa waiting to be found.”Read more about:

Source: thestar June 07, 2017 17:13 UTC