Oldest human remains ever found unearthed in Israel (5999 years old....)

Oldest human remains ever found unearthed in Israel

JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists say they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern humans.

A Tel Aviv University team excavating a cave in central Israel said Monday they found teeth that were about 400,000 years old. The earliest Homo sapiens remains found until now are half that old, and were discovered in Ethiopia.

Archaeologist Avi Gopher said Monday further research is needed to solidify the claim, which is detailed in the December edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. If the claim is borne out, the discovery would change "the whole picture of evolution," he said.

Accepted scientific theory is that Homo sapiens originated in Africa and migrated outward about 80,000 years ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40820248/ns/technology_and_science-science/?ocid=twitter

:rofl:

when I clicked on the OP.

:evilgrin:

...lol.
Seriously, I love these guys and the work they do.

:)

"Paleoanthropologists surveying a barren hillside in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia have discovered a 2.33 million-year-old upper jaw belonging to the genus Homo, pushing back the human timeline by more than 400,000 years. Within the same strata, researchers found more than 20 chert flakes and several "chopping tools," river cobbles chipped on two faces--the oldest stone tools ever found in association with hominid remains."
http://www.archaeology.org/9701/newsbriefs/homo.html

Not just genus Homo in your link. The Afar region fossils were Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis, older human ancestors than Homo sapiens or Neanderthals that are discussed in the link in the OP.

inaccurate.

So I don't have a problem with the wording in the title. It just depends on where the cut off point for defining "human". Heck, many don't categorize Neanderthals as "human" even though there is now evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred and that many humans today carry Neanderthal genes. meaning that Neanderthals are just a branch of H. sapeins.

:shrug:

... how teeth revealed this?

lead. Owwww, sometimes I crack me up. :rofl:

Which I think puts us through a bottle neck about 180,000 years ago. Hum?