[decimon]

As you were ping.

[DaxtonBrown]

Now if this archaeologist would just compare 250,000 years of Television use instead of stone tool use she’d be onto something.

[JimSEA]

Anthropologists have long speculated that language originated 60,000 to 80,000 years ago. That is totally counterintuitive to me. It makes no sense to me that the brain and other physiological changes necessary for language preceeded language by some 100,000 to 200,000 years. To me proto language must have come before physical changes. Otherwise we have to explain the evolution of complex physical changes for which there was no need. Selection of mutations that facilitated existing speech makes more sense.

I rather suspect that early Homo Sapiens were not too different than us. Minus the iPhone that is.

[bunkerhill7]

Earliest humans not so different from us, research suggests;

They were Egyptians

[smokingfrog]

[TheOldLady]

ping

[wendy1946]

Yet, the oldest Homo sapiens fossils occur between 100,000-200,000 years ago in Africa

The basic Non Evolution of Modern Man.

[Condor51]

Were the earliest humans significantly different from us? ... archaeologist John Shea ... shows they were not.

Darn right. And here's the proof!

;-)