300,000-year-old 'oldest ever' human fossils reveals SHOCK origin of mankind in Morocco

SCIENTISTS have unearthed the world’s “oldest” human fossils, enabling them to make new revelations about the origins of the human race.

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Scientists make a shock discovery of the origins of the human race fossil with tea

The bones, which are believed to be around 300,000 years old, suggest humans were sprawled across Africa during the "beginning of mankind", researchers have claimed.

Jean-Jacques Hublin from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said: “We used to think that there was a cradle of mankind 200,000 years ago in east Africa.

"But our new data reveals that Homo sapiens were spread across the entire African continent around 300,000 years ago.


But Mr Hublin was also keen to stress that humans did not “emerge in an Adamic way in a small ‘Garden of Eden’ somewhere in East Africa”.

The discovery of the fossils comes as scientists for many years claimed humans solely originated in eastern Africa around 195,000 years ago.


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In comparison to other fossils found decades ago, the newly discovered fossil collection represents at least five people, including young adults, an adolescent and a child of around 8-years-old.

Geochronology expert Daniel Richter, previously of the Max Planck Institute, said the fossils were “brainless” and lacked the “globular” shape of human’s heads today.

Earlier this year, scientists made the shock discovery that life on Earth could have evolved much earlier than previously thought.

Excavators working to find further fossilsEPA

Excavators working to find further fossils

Scientist Hubris looking for further fossilsEPA

Scientist Hubris looking for further fossils

Two fossils resembling red algae have been unearthed in India which are believed to be 400 million years older than anything resembling such life.

It is believed that life in the form of single celled organisms began on Earth around three billion years ago.