Intro to Jebel Irhoud: First Homo sapien 300,000 years ago

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Morocco, not far from the famous Casablanca. Explorers first found a near complete skull and then years later fragments of 5 others. But they had the dating wrong. And the classification. They thought the fossils belonged to Neanderthals at 40,000 years. Redating in the 1980s put it at 160,000 years. But another redating in the 2010s discovered it was 300,000 years old. And a Homo sapien, not a Neanderthal.

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