Anthropological evidence suggests a radical shift in behavior during the early years of modern humans, marked by intellectual, technological, and cultural advancements
Homo Sapiens
The gene variants are carried by 20% of present-day Europeans
Popularly known as the “meat made us human” hypothesis
It was found at a cement site
Just as we think we know what happened...
The findings suggest modern humans traveled across the Eurasian steppe about 45,000 years ago, about 10,000 years earlier than archaeologists previously believed
The fossil find, Apidima 1, originates from the site of Apidima, southern Greece
“We ate our way to higher consciousness"
“The fossil could indicate that Israel and the rest of the Arabian Peninsula were part of a larger region in which H. sapiens evolved”
The new human ancestor has been uncovered in a DNA analysis of human migration from Africa to Australasia