Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered
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Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered
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#2'The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early Pleistocene, finds a new study.'
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#3Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago?
Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?
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#4More info in the press release from UCL at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/fragment-human-face-aged...
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#5Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago? Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?
Homo but not Homo sapiens.
> “The evidence is still insufficient for a definitive classification, which is why it has been assigned to H. aff. erectus. This designation acknowledges Pink’s affinities with Homo erectus while leaving open the possibility that it may belong to another species.” - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/fragment-human-face-aged...
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#6Institutional source with photos:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/fragment-human-face-aged...
Paper with many photos and figures:
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#7Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago? Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?
No. Human here means a species in the Homo genus. That includes a lot more than just modern humans.
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#8Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago? Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?
Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier.
I'm not up-to-date on my research these days but it's only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there's been one extant human subspecies.
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#9Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago? Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?
Article says this skull fragment is possibly Homo Erectus.
This says they left Africa within in that time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus
This has further details on human evolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Evolution
This covers in more detail the time modern humans migrated from Africa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_moder...
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#10Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago? Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?
Article says this skull fragment is possibly Homo Erectus. This says they left Africa within in that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus This has further details on human evolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#Evolution This covers in more detail the time modern humans migrated from Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_moder...
> Ah-ha! But no one has found the missing link between ape and this so called Homo habilis