Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What if everything we knew about human origins was wrong? In 2017, archaeologists discovered fossils in Morocco which revealed that Homo sapiens are 100,000 years older than we initially thought. Join paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she reveals how this discovery is rewriting the science of evolution.

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This clip is from Human (2025). You can watch the full episode from this series in the UK on BBC iPlayer from 14 of July: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002fc72/human

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