When was the first Homo sapiens born?

Africans are the first human population on earth! However, the Africans themselves came from prehistoric and archaic Homosapuans that evolved solely in Africa! Close to about 500,000 year's mayby more for the birth of modern humans as we now! read more

Homo sapiens idaltu, dated to 160,000 years ago, has been postulated as an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens in 2003. Homo neanderthalensis, which became extinct about 40,000 years ago, has also been classified as a subspecies, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. read more

As early Homo sapiens dispersed, it encountered varieties of archaic humans both in Africa and in Eurasia, in Eurasia notably Homo neanderthalensis. Since 2010, evidence for gene flow between archaic and modern humans during the period of roughly 100,000 to 30,000 years ago has been discovered. read more