Paleoanthropology
08 Jun 2017
2 min read
Homo Sapiens was born in Morocco 300,000 years ago
Excavations carried out in Morocco push back the origins of Homo Sapiens on the African continent to 300,000 years ago. A way of rewriting the history of our origins.
The theory of origins was as beautiful as a film, but the script was not entirely tied up. The so-called "Out of Africa" model postulates that Homo sapiens was indeed born in Africa and had set off quickly 200,000 years ago to conquer the world. To the point of replacing other Homo species that had been established for a long time, such as Neanderthals in Europe. Garden of EdenTwo articles appearing Thursday on the front page of the prestigious journal Nature somewhat rewrite the story of our origins: the famous "Garden of Eden" situating the cradle of humanity in East Africa is on shaky ground. If the ancestor of Sapiens was indeed born in Africa, he spread throughout the continent before setting off to conquer the rest of the Globe, as shown by the work of an international team led by Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany), p…
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