John Yemma, the editor of Christian Science Monitor, first alerted me to the news in his editorial comment in an edition five years ago that this is the best kept secret in the world of Science: that humanity originated from Africa. Explanations abound to how from this region, homo sapiens mutated into different races.
Now, a breakthrough discovery confirms in a discovery that excited paleontologists said offers strong insights into how humans came to colonise the world.
An ancient skull found by experts could be the key to discovering how humans made their way out of Africa and colonised the world.
The braincase, found in a cave in northern Israel, also gives paleontologists a hint to where the very first prehistoric romps between humans and Neanderthals took place.
Experts have dated the skull, understood to belong to a woman, back to 55,000 years ago.
It reveals that humans arrived in the region which was heavily populated with Neanderthals at the time.
Bones of Neanderthals dated to the same era have been found just 24 miles away from the cave in Galilee, meaning that scientists could trace the interbreeding that left non-Africans with the DNA of Neanderthals.
Israel Hershkovitz, of Tel Aviv University, told the Guardian: “It’s amazing.
"This is the first specimen we have that connects Africa to Europe.
“We couldn’t believe our eyes. We immediately realised it was a prehistoric cave and that it had been inhabited for a very long time.
"Because the entrance had collapsed so long ago, it had been frozen in time. Nobody had been inside for 30,000 years.
“There is a huge central cave and several beautiful side chambers.
"In one side chamber, the skull was lying there on top of a rocky shelf. It was there waiting for us. We just had to pick it up."
It could be tied to why all the races in the world have dark-skinned aborigines in their communes.
