Rethinking Modern Human Origins

Modern humans, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa sometime between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago. I’ve written that sentence many times. But what if it’s wrong? Paleoanthropologist Tim Weaver of the University of California, Davis argues there might be another way to interpret our species’ beginnings. Instead of a discrete origin event, he suggests in the Journal of Human Evolution that our ancestors’ arrival into the world might have been a lengthy process that occurred over hundreds of thousands of years.

Current thinking says the lineages leading to modern humans and Neanderthals split 400,000 years ago. And then 200,000 years later,  Homo sapiens suddenly appeared in Africa. There’s a lot of evidence that seems to support the idea... Hominid Hunting