Homo sapiens fossils found in Morocco demonstrate that our species is older than had been thought, reports the New York Times:
Dating back roughly 300,000 years, the bones indicate that mankind evolved earlier than had been known, experts say, and open a new window on our origins.
The fossils also show that early Homo sapiens had faces much like our own, although their brains differed in fundamental ways.
Until now, the oldest fossils of our species, found in Ethiopia, dated back just 195,000 years. The new fossils suggest our species evolved across Africa.
“We did not evolve from a single cradle of mankind somewhere in East Africa,†said Phillipp Gunz, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and a co-author of two new studies on the fossils, published in the journal Nature.
My hypothesis about the development of our species looks better with each of these new discoveries.
This doesn’t square with Mayr’s theory of allopatric speciation.
I don’t think so. I’d say it just tells us that the speciation took place a lot longer ago than had been previously believed.
So, my son in law is right? He says we are fertilizer. (no God)