Michael Button

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It wasn't that I disputed anything that I've been taught and I have like great respect for the people that I met at university and my professors and I don't dispute anything that we were taught actually on the course but it was more the kind of high-level macro perspective of history that I found myself having more and more questions about and yeah, so... What bothered you?

It was kind of the big questions regarding the origins of civilization and how deep civilization goes and how complex human behavior, you know, I thought went way back further into history than what we were being taught.

And I wasn't too I just didn't buy this idea that nothing happened for like vast stretch of time because it was during my course that.

They found that modern humans, they made this discovery in Morocco in 2017 or 2018, I think.

And that was when I was at university.

No, no, Homo sapiens.

So I can't remember.

It's called like the Jebel Irud site or something like that.

But they were modern Homo sapien remains.

They thought they were Neanderthal initially because they were so old.

They're 315,000 years old.

That's kind of like the estimate.

It goes up to potentially 360,000 years old.

So they're super old.

And yeah, they thought they were initially Neanderthals of this age, but then they discovered a few more and they classified them as Homo sapien.

And when I saw that, I was like, how is this not kicking up more of a fuss?

Because before them, the oldest Homo sapien remains we had were...

around 200,000 years old.

And that had been the case for like a decade or something.