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Fossils at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated about 315,000 years ago, are the earliest known Homo sapiens: modern faces, older braincases.
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LAST OF ALL — our kind appears
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- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / OBSERVATION; Status: ADDED 2026-09-19
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — Smithsonian NMNH, Jebel Irhoud 1 skull cast (original in Rabat, Morocco) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jebel_Irhoud-1_NMNH.jpg
- SourcesFOSSIL / DATING — Jebel Irhoud (Hublin et al., Nature 546:289–292; Richter et al., Nature 546:293–296, 2017)
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