When did homo sapiens first emerge? It's a complex question to answer. 🦴🔥 "When we began as a species is an incredibly complex and complicated question to answer", explains paleoanthropologist @EllaAlShamahi, whose work has taken her to contested and conflicted regions including Yemen, Somaliland and Iraq, in search of a better understanding of human origins. "We used to think we were probably about 200,000 years old," she adds. Recent dating of fossils discovered at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco su