jan 1, 160000 BC - Homo sapiens idaltu
Description:
Homo sapiens idaltu (Afar: Idaltu; "elder" or "first born"[1]), also called Herto Man, is the name given to a number of early modern human fossils found in 1997 in Herto Bouri, Ethiopia. They date to around 160,000 years ago.Palaeoanthropologists determined that the skeletal finds belong to an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens who lived in Pleistocene Africa. The subspecies H. s. idaltu falls under the umbrella of Anatomically modern humans. The recognition of H. s. idaltu as a valid subspecies of the anatomically modern human lineage would justify the description of contemporary humans with the subspecies name H. s. sapiens, though physical anthropologist Chris Stringer does not consider idaltu distinct enough within H. sapiens to warrant its own subspecies designation, and instead classifies it simply as anatomically modern H. sapiens. Palaeoanthropologist Tim D. White and others consider the fossils represent the probable immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans.
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Date:
jan 1, 160000 BC
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~ 162134 years ago