The story of human evolution has been pushed back 100,000 years after the discovery of the earliest Homo sapiens remains ever excavated.
In a dig on a Moroccan hillside, scientists have found the fossilised skeletons of humans dating from 300,000 years ago. Not only are they far older than previous finds, they are also thousands of miles away from east Africa, where many would have expected to see the earliest humans.
The newly unearthed Homo sapiens walked on two feet like modern humans, used basic stone tools and supported themselves with game and the occasional ostrich egg.
The scientists behind the research said that the bones of the six primates show that Homo sapiens had spread across the continent early in their evolution, and that
