Agreed. I was the same place: do they mean an imprint of a face? Or a partially preserved ancient artwork? No, they mean fossilised bone fragments comprising upper mouth and cheekbone areas of a human skull.

Yeah I was confused as well. &quot;Face&quot; isn&#x27;t really a body part, it&#x27;s more of a perceptual unit. It&#x27;s just a piece of the front of someone&#x27;s head.

Oh, facial bones. Now Im less confused. I think the layman would call that a skull fragment.

now, run that through an AI face de-ager!

Institutional source with photos:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;mar&#x2F;fragment-human-face-aged-over-one-million-years-discovered" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;mar&#x2F;fragment-human-face-aged...</a>Paper with many photos and figures:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-025-08681-0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41586-025-08681-0</a>

What if the literature of God Created men(mankind) in his image came to differentiate Homo sapiens from others.Or the history really began once the other Humans were no more ?Just passing thoughts

The craziest thing for me is that there&#x27;s a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.

&gt; Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier.Usually those would be called hominids, not humans.

Modern humans did. Other human species left Africa and populated the rest of the old world much, much earlier.I&#x27;m not up-to-date on my research these days but it&#x27;s only within the last 10K years or so (maybe even more recent) where there&#x27;s been one extant human subspecies.

&gt; Ah-ha! But no one has found the missing link between ape and this so called Homo habilis

Article says this skull fragment is possibly Homo Erectus.This says they left Africa within in that time:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homo_erectus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homo_erectus</a>This has further details on human evolution:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human#Evolution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Human#Evolution</a>This covers in more detail the time modern humans migrated from Africa:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recent_African_origin_of_moder...</a>

No. Human here means a species in the Homo genus. That includes a lot more than just modern humans.

Homo but not Homo sapiens.&gt; “The evidence is still insufficient for a definitive classification, which is why it has been assigned to H. aff. erectus. This designation acknowledges Pink’s affinities with Homo erectus while leaving open the possibility that it may belong to another species.” - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;mar&#x2F;fragment-human-face-aged-over-one-million-years-discovered" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;mar&#x2F;fragment-human-face-aged...</a>

All homo species are or were bipedal tool users and descended from ancestors that had been bipedal tool users for a million years prior. You wouldn&#x27;t get them confused with a gorilla.

Only if you can&#x27;t tell a gorilla from a chimpanzee.Neither are first-cousins to Homo, which is descended from genii since the split from the shoot that Bonobos came from.

No the homo genus includes everything from something barely distinguishable from an gorilla all the way to modern humans.

Didn&#x27;t humans first leave Africa 100,000 years ago by high estimates? To Western Europe 40,000 years ago?Doesn&#x27;t this completely upend early humanity?

More info in the press release from UCL at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;mar&#x2F;fragment-human-face-aged-over-one-million-years-discovered" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucl.ac.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;2025&#x2F;mar&#x2F;fragment-human-face-aged...</a>

&#x27;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.&#x27;

They don&#x27;t look a day over 900,000 years.

Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered