{"id":130334,"date":"2022-01-21T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130334"},"modified":"2022-01-21T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:08:56","slug":"omo-i-oldest-human-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/omo-i-oldest-human-fossils\/","title":{"rendered":"Omo I \u2013 Oldest Human Fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following are correct:<\/strong><br>(i) As per a recent study published in Nature , one of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils, Omo Kibish I, may be around 35,000 years older than it was previously thought.<br>(ii) Omo Kibish I was first unearthed in Ethiopia in 1967.<br><strong>Which of the above are correct?<\/strong><br>(a) i<br>(b) ii<br>(c) both<br>(d) none<br><strong>Ans: c<br>Related Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As per a recent study published in Nature , one of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils, Omo Kibish I, may be around 35,000 years older than it was previously thought.<\/li><li>Omo Kibish I was first unearthed in lower Omo valley of southern Ethiopia. in 1967.<\/li><li>Earlier attempts to date the Omo I fossils suggested they were 197,000 years old, but the new research shows they must be older than that.<\/li><li>A major explosive eruption of Shala volcano in the Main Ethiopian Rift that took place 230,000 years ago and represent the earliest evidence of our species, Homo sapiens.<\/li><li>The study used volcanic ash to date the fossils and thus there were 22,000-year margin of error.<\/li><li>New minimum age for Omo I is consistent with most recent theories of human evolution.<\/li><li>Study also brings it closer to the age given to oldest Homo sapiens remains, which were discovered in 2017 in Morocco. Remains in Morocco were dated to 300,000 years ago.<\/li><li>Omo I is the only fossil, with all the morphological characteristics of modern man.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Kameshwar Shukla<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04275-8\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04275-8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following are correct:(i) As per a recent study published in Nature , one of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils, Omo Kibish I, may be around 35,000 years older than it was previously thought.(ii) Omo Kibish I was first unearthed in Ethiopia in 1967.Which of the above are correct?(a) i(b) ii(c) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-130334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130335,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130334\/revisions\/130335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}