> earliest known Homo sapiens fossils date from around 300,000 years ago and were found in what’s now Israel, Duller said.<p>This is false, according to my records. The oldest homo sapiens fossils hail from Morocco[1].<p>CNN itself even thinks that so not sure how they make this mistake: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/health/oldest-homo-sapiens-fossils-found/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/health/oldest-homo-sapiens-fo...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans</a>