Didn't humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago?
Doesn't this completely upend early humanity?
llm_nerd | 25 days ago
More info in the press release from UCL at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/fragment-human-face-aged...
eesmith | 25 days ago
'The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early Pleistocene, finds a new study.'
docmechanic | a month ago
They don't look a day over 900,000 years.
erellsworth | 25 days ago
Insert Joan Rivers joke here
mjd | 25 days ago
Institutional source with photos:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/fragment-human-face-aged...
Paper with many photos and figures:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08681-0