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New Homo sapiens fossil found outside of Africa, from 194 kya
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: [QB] Another recent study on modern human evolution, this one on braincase changes... [URL=https://www.sciencenews.org/article/human-brains-rounded-shape-over-200000-years-or-more]Human brains rounded into shape over 200,000 years or more[/URL] [QUOTE]Big brains outpaced well-rounded brains in human evolution. Around the time of the origins of our species 300,000 years ago, the brains of Homo sapiens had about the same relatively large size as they do today, new research suggests. [qb]But rounder noggins rising well above the forehead — considered a hallmark of human anatomy — didn’t appear until between about 100,000 and 35,000 years ago,[/qb] say physical anthropologist Simon Neubauer and his colleagues.[/QUOTE]So the modern human braincases that all people today have would not have come about by the time of the new Israeli fossil from 194 kya. Therefore, I'm inclined to think that older population was a "dead end" for the most part. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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