Sapiens The New Origins

In 2017 a publication in the journal Nature rocked the scientific world Dating the remains of five individuals found in Morocco at about 315000 years has pushed back the age of our species by 100000 years Advances in virtual paleontology have revealed new information about these remains This discovery has thrown our views on the history of our species into disarray

In the same way that it opened a breach in time the discovery in Irhoud also opened one in space We must consider the African continent of 300000 years ago as a vast global territory Thanks to the work of researchers in paleoclimatology we discover times when the Sahara was green on a continent that in reality is as large as the United States China India and much of Europe combined