Re-dating of 2 skulls found in '67 may be oldest human fossils
Two skulls unearthed in Ethiopia may be the oldest known human fossils, dating from the dawn of modern humanity 195,000 years ago, a new analysis shows.
In research made public Thursday, scientists recalculated the age of the two previously discovered skulls, concluding they were about 30,000 years older than any other human fossils.
The antiquity of the skulls makes them the only reliable record of a time when anatomically modern humans first appeared among more primitive species in the evolutionary incubator of Africa.
In resolving the age of the fossils, however, the dating experts highlighted a deeper mystery of human evolution that the bones by themselves could not answer: the gap between the advent of modern human anatomy and the awakening of the mind 50,000 to 150,000 years later.
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It has never been proven that the human mind actually awakened.
The fossil in dispute has also proven to be a female and you know as well as I that women lie about their ages.
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