US EditionYunxian 2 Skull Reveals Homo Sapiens Emerged One Million Years Ago - 400,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought - Ancient Pages
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A major discovery comes to question the history of humanity as we knew it. By analyzing a fossilized skull one million years old, paleoanthropologists now say that Homo sapiens could be much older than science thought so far. A study that doubles the supposed age of our species Until recently, the scientific consensus established that modern man had diverged from his ancestor Homo erectus between 500,000 and 700,000 years ago. But a new study, p…
Yunxian 2 Skull Reveals Homo Sapiens Emerged One Million Years Ago - 400,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought - Ancient Pages
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent groundbreaking study has proposed that Homo sapiens may have started to emerge over a million years ago, extending our species' origins by 400,000 years beyond previous genetic estimates. Central to this discovery is the Yunxian 2 fossil, a one-million-year-old cranium initially classified as Homo erectus. New analysis reclassifies it […]
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