Without further research it is impossible to know if the town is named after Christopher Columbus or the goddess Columbia. How the District of Columbia gots its name. On the first map of the city of Washington by federal city planner Pierre L'Enfant it was called the Permanent Seat of the Government.
Other scientists have argued that human beings originated in Africa before moving to other regions 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. Homo sapiens discovered in Middle Awash, Ethiopia, from 160,000 years ago were believed to be the oldest 'modern' human beings.Other remains previously found in Israeli caves are thought to have been more recent and 80,000 to 100,000 years old.he findings of Professor Avi Gopher and Dr Ran Barkai of the Institute of Archeology at Tel Aviv University, published last week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, suggest that modern man did not originate in Africa as previously believed, but in the Middle East.
Modern humans are of the species Homo sapiens. There is evidence that modern humans evolved from various human ancestors like those within the Ardipithecus Group, Australopithecus Group, and the Paranthropus Group. However, the most closely related human ancestors are found in the Homo Group.Homo habilis skull.he most primitive of the Homo group is the species Homo habilis. Homo habilis lived from 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago. This species started to resemble modern humans more with a larger brain, smaller face, and smaller teeth.