Earliest ever modern humans discovered showing homo sapiens are 100,000 years older than we thought

The bones from five Homo sapiens have been discovered in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. The discovery overturns ideas of the idea that modern humans evolved in Ethiopia, and pushes back the origin of our species by 100,000 years.

Jean-Jacques Hublin, MPI-EVA Leipzig

• June 8, 2017 01:00 IST

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The bones from five Homo sapiens have been discovered in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. The discovery overturns ideas of the idea that modern humans evolved in Ethiopia, and pushes back the origin of our species by 100,000 years.