Most Recent Ancestor Of The Earliest Modern Homo Sapiens. A few relationships are clear. One of our earliest-known ancestors Sahelanthropus began.
We interacted with local archaic human populations as we colonised the globe. Stars - creation of stars. For instance there is consensus among scientists that the three most recent species of hominids Homo heidelbergensis Homo neanderthalensis and modern humans Homo.
Now two new studies published today in the journal Nature fill in some of those.
But when exactly modern humans evolved from our most recent ancestor probably Homo heidelbergensis is a mystery. Despite having lived about 300000 years ago the oldest ancestor of all members of Homo sapiens had a surprisingly modern skull as suggested by a model created by CNRS researcher Aurélien Mounier. The earliest date to about 2 million years ago while the most recent date to just over 100000 years ago. However the human lineage has survived a long and arduous journey.