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The shape of a Jebel Irhoud skull (L) is almost identical to ours (R)
The idea that modern people evolved in a single "cradle of humanity" in East Africa some 200,000 years ago is no longer tenable, new research suggests.Â
Fossils of five early humans have been found
in North Africa that show Homo sapiens emerged at least 100,000 years earlier than previously recognised.Â
It suggests that our species evolved all across the continent, the scientists involved say.Â
Their work is published in the journal Nature, external.
Prof Jean-Jacques Hublin, of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, told me that the discovery would "rewrite the textbooks" about our emergence as a species.Â
"It is not the story of it happening in a rapid way in a 'Garden of Eden' somewhere in Africa. Our view is that it was a more gradual development and it involved the whole continent. So if there was a Garden of Eden, it was all of [...]
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