Oldest Homo sapiens fossil claim rewrites our species' history. Remains from Morocco dated to 315,000 years ago push back our species' origins by 100,000 years — and suggest we didn't evolve only in East Africa. Ewen Callaway. read more
A few years ago, researchers found 154,000- to 160,000-year-old human bones at Herto, Ethiopia. Now, a new study of the 1967 fossil site indicates the earliest known members of our species, Homo sapiens, roamed Africa about 195,000 years ago. read more
The fossils at Jebel Irhoud raise the possibility that they were made by early Homo sapiens. And if that is true, Dr. Gunz and his colleagues argue, then our species may have been evolving as a network of groups spread across the continent. read more
T he Moroccan fossils add to a decades-long debate about how and where Homo sapiens arose. Until now, the firmest finds of early Homo sapiens were from two sites in Ethiopia, dating to around 200,000 years old. Those fossils put the spotlight on eastern sub-Saharan Africa for the origin of our species. read more