The recent African origin of modern humans or the "Out of Africa" theory holds that present-day humans outside Africa descend mainly from a single expansion of anatomically modern humans from Africa a
Expansion of early modern humans from Africa through the Near East
Layer sequence at Ksar Akil in the Levantine corridor, and discovery of two fossils of Homo sapiens, dated to 40,800 to 39,200 years BP for "Egbert", and 42,400–41,700 BP for "Ethelruda".
Anatomically Modern Humans known archaeological remains in Europe and Africa, directly dated, calibrated carbon dates as of 2013.
The frontispiece to Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863): the image compares the skeleton of a human to other apes.
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Early modern human, or anatomically modern human, are terms used to distinguish Homo sapiens that are anatomically consistent with the range of phenotypes seen in contemporary humans, from extinct arc
Recent African origin of modern humans
…origin of modern humans or the "Out of Africa" theory (OOA) holds that present-day humans outside Africa descend mainly from a single expansion of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) from Africa about 70,000–50,000 years ago. It is the most widely accepted paleo-anthropological model of the geographic origin and early…
Reconstruction of early Homo sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, c. 315,000 years BP
100 to 80 thousand year old Skhul V from Israel