190,000 years ago in Ethiopia, our ancestor was born. Probably it looked very much like us, had brain as big as ours'.
So we then splead to all the places, and killed off another Homo Sapiens, Neanderthal and possibly more apes, which are extinct now. Anthropology is fun, cause it let us imagine things that really happened.
The article on Nature.
This skull, called Omo II, is from the earliest known member of our species.
© Michael Day
Two Ethiopian fossils have been crowned as the oldest known members of our species. An estimated 195,000 years old, the pair were witness to the earliest days of Homo sapiens.
The discovery adds yet more weight to the argument that Africa, and Ethiopia in particular, was the birthplace of humans. The dating sits well with genetic analyses of modern populations, which suggest that H. sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 years ago.
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