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> At this point the 3 oldest fossils we have that look like homo sapiens are all from Morocco or the Levant or Greece, suggesting homo sapiens first evolved nea
by cco 3y ago
> At this point the 3 oldest fossils we have that look like homo sapiens are all from Morocco or the Levant or Greece, suggesting homo sapiens first evolved near the Mediterranean.
This is fascinating and new to me, can you provide any articles or podcasts that discuss it?
- username135 3y agoSeconded
- lkrubner 3y agoI've been meaning to write this up in one place, and maybe this week would be a good time to do so. I thought the news from Morocco was now well known, see here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22114 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22114 Homo sapiens and some other form of human were living in the Levant 200,000 years ago: https://www.earth.com/news/new-type-of-prehistoric-human-found-in-the-levant/ https://www.earth.com/news/new-type-of-prehistoric-human-fou... The reference to the skulls found on an island Greece, I'll need time to track that one down.
- cco 3y agoFascinating, I was able to find some references to Greece around 200kya, but not much around the Levant. Very neat, turns a lot of previous evidence on its head.