Homo Sapiens.

The fossilized remains of different individuals found in 1997 near the town of Herto, in Ethiopia, testify that, about 160,000 years ago, human beings very similar to us already existed in Africa. According to the data handled by scientists, Homo sapiens , the subspecies to which we all belong, would have appeared between 200,000 and 160,000 years ago. And it certainly did so in the same regions where hominids had adopted bipedal walking more than 4 million years ago, and where, for the first time, a human-like species learned to make tools, 2.5 million years ago. years.