The story of humans’ origins got a revision in 2017
Homo sapiens’ emergence pushed back to around 300,000 years ago
GETTING OLDER Roughly 300,000-year-old fossils from Morocco have been attributed to Homo sapiens. CT scans, used to produce these reconstructions, reveal a modern-looking face (left) but a braincase similar to older, now extinct Homo species (right).
PHILIPP GUNZ/MPI-EVA, LEIPZIG
Human origins are notoriously tough to pin down.