Uppsala University. "Modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago new study suggests."
ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 28 September 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170928142016.htm>.
A genomic analysis of ancient human remains from KwaZulu-Natal have uncovered that South
Africa may have had a previously unidentified role in the history of humankind. The scientists and
researches involved with this discovery estimate that human divergence had actually occurred
earlier than scientists had already predicted, going back 350,000 to 260,000 yeas ago. Fossils and
other evidence are showing different populations in South Africa to have admixed and emerged
separately at different points in time than what they had thought to be. This changes scientists' idea
of when the divergence among modern humans had actually occurred. This relates to what we had
learned during the Foundations unit because it contradicts with the timeline of the big eras and our
general idea of when humans emerged and the pathway they were set on to reach modern times
now.
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