Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco

Re:Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco by tarsinge on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:16AM (#14512927)

> This particular skull is apparently slightly elongated compared to than of modern humans, so that is spawning some debate, which is good. I don't know if some would consider this a parent species because of this, but probably.

Naive question, how do we draw the line between new species and variance of actual homo sapiens? I can imagine some interesting "specimens" of underlying skulls in some people I've encountered that could even fall in another extinct homo species from the images I've seen (sounds funny but it's real question).

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Re:Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco by Clubber on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:02AM (#14514224)

I would guess that's up to each researcher. When I was familiarizing myself about some of this on Wikipedia, I noticed that by the time homo erectus came around our predecessors already knew how to control fire and make clothing.

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