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Description: A composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils. Dated to 300 thousand years ago this early Homo sapiens already has a modern-looking face that falls within the variation of humans living today.
Title: Homo sapiens from Jebel Irhoud
Credit: https://www.mpg.de/11322546/homo-sapiens-ist-aelter-als-gedacht
Author: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
License: CC BY-SA 2.0
License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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