justsaygnosis
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030623-458776,00.html
Put early man in a suit and tie and send him down a New York sidewalk, and he probably wouldn’t attract a second glance. New fossils prove the first Homo sapiens were a lot more similar to modern humans than originally thought. An international research team has finally unearthed the long-sought fossil remains of what could be the very first true Homo sapiens, dated to between 160,000 and 154,000 years ago. And because of the quality of the specimens and where they were discovered, they cast new light on several of paleontology's thorniest questions.
Put early man in a suit and tie and send him down a New York sidewalk, and he probably wouldn’t attract a second glance. New fossils prove the first Homo sapiens were a lot more similar to modern humans than originally thought. An international research team has finally unearthed the long-sought fossil remains of what could be the very first true Homo sapiens, dated to between 160,000 and 154,000 years ago. And because of the quality of the specimens and where they were discovered, they cast new light on several of paleontology's thorniest questions.