Before Homo Sapiens killed off all our cousins, Earth was practically a cornucopia of hominids.
Before Homo Sapiens killed off all our cousins, Earth was practically a cornucopia of hominids.
To put these dates into perspective, our species, Homo sapiens, emerged 300,000 years ago. So the unknown hominins who built these tools were romping around eastern and northern Africa some 2.3 million years before modern humans hit the scene. The new discoveries at Ain Boucherit, the details of which were published today in Science, suggest North Africa wasn’t just a place where human ancestors lived and developed tools—it was a place where they evolved.
https://gizmodo.com/the-human-origin-story-has-changed-again-thanks-to-new-1830747304
To put these dates into perspective, our species, Homo sapiens, emerged 300,000 years ago. So the unknown hominins who built these tools were romping around eastern and northern Africa some 2.3 million years before modern humans hit the scene. The new discoveries at Ain Boucherit, the details of which were published today in Science, suggest North Africa wasn’t just a place where human ancestors lived and developed tools—it was a place where they evolved.
https://gizmodo.com/the-human-origin-story-has-changed-again-thanks-to-new-1830747304
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