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I've said it in discussions here at the BSFS many a time and I'll no doubt say it many,many more that Homo Sapiens (us) have been around for a far longer time than believed. The majority of the time (approximately 50-60,000 years) it was 'Black or Negroid' Africans who walked the Earth and survived long enough to allow our species to out last all our competitors.

Here is a video by the National Geographic Society that shows the find of an African child from 108,000 years ago and the reconstruction of the skull and face. Though it's just a reconstruction, there's something powerful looking into the eyes of someone who lived and died so long ago....

Naked Science: World's Oldest Child