Scientists Created a Human Unlike Any Ever Seen from Ancient Fossils

The archaeologists are also uncomfortable with the researchers' blending of various skulls, and the comparison of reconstructions of whole skulls from fragmentary remains. These skulls can look very different from the population on which they are based, because the reconstruction is a "chimera", made up of parts from different skulls. In fact, Claiming these remains are Homo sapiens stretches the meaning of that term, according to some researchers.

One of the biggest enigma's about the emergence of anatomically modern humans has been whether our body plan evolved quickly or slowly. The discovery of the Jebel Irhoud human appears to support the latter, because it appears that our faces evolved into the modern form long before our braincases did.

Indeed, if the key characteristics of Homo sapiens are a small face and the shape of the lower jaw, the Jebel Irhoud remains may actually be from our ancestors, so researchers should be shifting the focus of research looking into the origins of modern humans from sub-Saharan Africa to the Mediterranean. The fact that human evolution is full of mysteries and enigmas is, however, obvious and apparent.

Nonetheless, not all scientists concur that the fossils from Jebel Irhoud are those of Homo sapiens. The assertion that the "earliest" Homo sapiens walked the Earth 300,000 years ago has drawn criticism from some scientists. There can never truly be an "earliest" version of humanity because evolution is a continuous process with no ideal beginnings or endings; instead, there are only intermediate forms that exist between different species.

Some scientists believe that admission to the Homo sapiens family should be highly selective. Meanwhile, other scientists are willing to adopt a much more open-ended definition of what Homo sapiens is, and they would be content to cram this specimen into the category of Homo sapiens out of practicality or even philosophical considerations.

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[beingsneaky]

I like the theory that humans evolved in many places not just one.

[sharonhoerr]

The first reconstruction could be Shrek. 😊 'Wonder if their ears were mobile.

[AnthropoTube]

If the Jebel Irhoud humans were indeed in the lineage that produced Homo sapiens, they would have been _Basal_ Homo sapiens. This means that they would have been at the beginning of the transition from Homo heidelbergensis to developed forms of Homo sapiens, namely Anatomically Modern Humans, Homo sapiens idaltu, and Aterians (whom I consider to be a distinct subspecies of Homo sapiens).

I think that the Jebel Irhoud humans were from East Africa (since that is where most pre-human and archaic human fossils that are in the lineage that produced Homo sapiens were discovered). And I think that they evolved into the Aterians, while Basal Homo sapiens in East Africa evolved into Anatomically Modern Humans and Homo sapiens idaltu.

[Firestarter-AU]

Looks identical to indigenous peoples in Australia....do a google search for inages ...see they look IDENTICAL why is no one talking about tgat??

[Mezziah.]

Yhat first image, Looks like panthra from Thundercats.

[stephengent]

It beggars belief that so-caled scientists balk at accepting modern humans stretch so far back into history, Why? As to the faculty of language: we do not know when it first manifested itself, but probably a lot earlier than is currently thought.

[jamesyoung]

Thank for you deep focus in this area of knowledge !

[freefall]

Homosapians are a social species with a social development not seen in other hominids.

[myboloneyhasafirstname]

I’m not an anthropologist, but I think anthropology is key to understanding our species and strategies to carry on into the future. The term, “Modern Human” is misleading for me. I prefer to think of “Contemporary Humans” for people who include Sapiens, Neanderthal, Denisovan, Floriensis, (who am I forgetting?) DNA since 40, 000 BCE and “Early People”from about 400, 000 BCE (includes people whose lineage died out before those previously mentioned. This helps me think of us as people, not just as species. This helps me think of earlier people as my ancestors who belonged to long lines of intermarriage with people of many different appearances, statures, and homelands. I’m not suggesting any change to scientific terms, just sharing how I frame my own concept of who I am. I’ve always felt there is a value judgement associated with “Modern, ” as though it is preferable to what came before, implying some kind of penultimate achievement that dismisses our staggering foundation built on the shoulders of Cro Magnon, Neanderthal, etc. but that’s just me.🙂

[jasonborn]

Extremely thought provoking and well done. It's common genetic knowledge all living haplogroups descend in an unbroken line from a single African ancestor--the A00 haplogroup. Homo sapiens absorbed small amounts of archaic DNA yet the original lineage has remained mostly intact ranging from 81% to over 99% unmixed ancestry.

I heard recently that African fossils such as Idaltu, Omo 1, Herto Man and living haplogroup A are early basal Homo sapiens dating from the same epoch, and some believe later more derived Eurasian lineages are Homo sapiens sapiens. Do Homo sapiens have more basal morphology than Homo sapiens sapiens? A video on this question might be popular and highly compelling, sir.

[gabademics]

I am not sure why there is such an obsession to classify all Homo memebers as the same species.

[carlacrawford]

I find it very uninteresting when the talk is computerized. It's so impersonal.

[hruiine]

we have no idea of time of the first anything its beyond us

[raynabateman]

So it matters why? I’d be more worried that we are devolving

[hruiine]

have a look at the early roman statues

[sexmypu]

They need not have, could have had my cousin

[truchesirmans]

🤓🤓🤓 at this date and time I do not trust anything I cannot put my hands on since they can 3D anything, from guns, to skulls to even what we eat like that of the edible 3D printed pink salmon that is now hitting the supermarkets in Florida.