When Did We Become Us? Ancient Fossil Stirs Debate Over What Separates Early Humans From Modern Ones
By Kastalia Medrano On 1/27/18 at 8:50 AM
On January 25, scientists announced the discovery of the oldest modern human fossil ever found outside of Africa—a nearly 200,000-year-old jawbone, complete with teeth, unearthed at Misliya Cave in Israel.
The Misliya fossil is the first real, tangible, physical evidence that humans left the African continent at least 50,000 years earlier than previously believed. It also supports the larger theory that modern humans, meaning humans who appear physically the way humans do today, became modern much earlier than we'd originally thought, a theory which is hard to fully grasp in and of itself because we still can't pinpoint what defines a 'modern' human in the first place.
http://www.newsweek.com/when-did-we-become-us-ancient-fossil-early-humans-modern-792572
