Jebel Irhoud homo sapiens at 350,000 BP

These fossils allow us to find that homo sapiens existed over 350,000 BP.  For a long time we have been stuck with 200,000 BP.  Morphology suggests a change in brain evolution and that may well be indicative of that 200,000 BP transition long suggested as an external event.  Any such event still needed a proto human to work with and the known alternatives are no good.

Again this population was also living on steppe lands.  We have a long history of all that.  however. I still think that protohumanity emerged first in the Sahul and Indonesia long before spreading out into the global Steppe lands under Ice Age conditions

At least we now have proto humans needing a brain upgrade..

Jebel Irhoud

For a long time it was believed that the oldest Homo sapiens fossils were from East Africa, and therefore it was long believed that we modern humans originate from that area of Africa.

But what if I told you that the Oldest fossilized remains of Homo sapiens were found in North Africa? 

To be exact, these fossils were discovered in the Country of Morocco and even though there are some anthropologists that contest these fossils, they do represent the oldest discovered Homo sapiens remains that we have ever found so far. 

The discovery of the homo sapiens fossils at Jebel Irhoud suggest that homo sapiens did not emerge from East Africa like it was long believed, but that they were most likely emerging along the entire length of Africa at least 100,000 years earlier, and not contained in one location. 

It´s even possible that the earliest homo sapiens interbred with numerous species around 330,000 years ago, this would have most likely happened on a continental scale instead, which sounds a lot more likely than our species emerging in only one confined corner of the continent. 

Of course as you can imagine, attempts to extract DNA from these fossils have all been unsuccessful, it´s nearly impossible to extract DNA from fossils that are this old in the climate of the African continent.

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