re: #181 engineer cat

what species did homo sapiens sapiens evolve from? i thought the accepted estimate for the first homo sapiens sapiens like humans was at about 200,000 bc… and the ancestors must have been around at that time

The question is whether “H. sapiens sapiens” is too artificial of a division. It’s sort of analogous to what has happened in plant taxonomy, where many families of Orchids have been so finely divided that the difference between “species” is simply a small differences in morphology.

It’s not clear to me what the divisions are now, with all we know, of all those humans that from cranial measurements appear to be “modern”.

There are skulls/fragments from both west Africa and East Africa of “modern” humans. The most famous is the “Omo” remains:
en.wikipedia.org