[edwin hubble]

Good post.

But these were our species...
but not our subspecies ('modern humans', homo sapiens sapiens) were they?

(info from this site:
http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learnmodules/top_longfor/timeline/timeline.html

Homo sapiens (unspecified subspecies) - 400,000 to 200,000 years BCE
Homo sapiens neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years BCE
Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years BCE to present

[blam]

Maybe they are related to this guy, Cheddar Man

[Ahban]

Ed,

There is a 70K gap between the end of our previous subspecies and the beginning our our current one, and that 130K is being very generous. The evidence of our subspecies goes back about 40-50K.

How can that 70K gap exist if we are the descendents of the previous species? We aren't from Neandertals, right?

[HankReardon]

What is BCE? Before the Current Era? What happened to Before Christ?