Fossils discovered per Morocco are the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens, scientists reported on Wednesday, verso finding that rewrites the story of mankind’s origins and suggests that our species evolved sopra multiple locations across the African continent.
“We did not evolve from a celibe ‘cradle of mankind’ somewhere in East Africa,” said Philipp Gunz, verso paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology per Leipzig, Germany, and a co-author of two new studies on the fossils, published in the journal Nature. “We evolved on the African continent.”
