Homo Sapiens Emerge

"Fossils discovered in Morocco are the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens... a finding that rewrites the story of mankind’s origins and suggests that our species evolved in multiple locations across the African continent... We did not evolve from a single ‘cradle of mankind’ somewhere in East Africa... We evolved on the African continent... Until now, the oldest known fossils of our species dated back just 195,000 years. The Moroccan fossils, by contrast, are roughly 300,000 years old... Only much later — roughly 70,000 years ago — did a small group of Africans make their way to other continents."