# Did All Species Arise about 200,000 Years Ago?

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**Created:** [May 28, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/did-all-species-arise-about-200-000-years-ago/285 "2018-05-28T17:19:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/did-all-species-arise-about-200-000-years-ago/285/9 "2018-05-30T17:55:20Z")

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> [@vjtorley](#):
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> However, [recent discoveries](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2133807-our-species-may-be-150000-years-older-than-we-thought/) have pushed back the origin of _Homo sapiens_ to 300,000 years ago

The jury is still out on that isn’t it? I mean even that link has plenty of hedges. Besides the re-measure on the dating, the face of those finds may have been more like us- sans the jaw- but the braincase was not. So is it our faces or our brains that set us apart? I’d say lots of monkeys have flatter faces.

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