The Oldest Homo sapiens in East Africa

The Omo 1 remains are at least 36,000 years older than once thought

It is largely agreed upon that Homo sapiens originated in East Africa sometime around 200,000 years ago. Only eight sites in Africa have yielded Homo sapiens remains. A Nature paper in 2017 shook this all up with the discovery of 300,000-year-old Homo sapiens remains in what is now modern day Morocco¹. We have since been reanalyzing the timing of the eme…