Omo 1 redated to 233kya changes human family tree: Omo 2,  Herto Man direct lineage to NE Africans?
Channel: Eric Dondero, Right-Anthro & Human Origins
Date: 20/04/2024

With the redating of the Omo 1 skull from 190,000 years ago to 233,000 years ago, it is beginning to appear that maybe Omo 1 diverged from Omo 2.   And that Omo 2 is more closely related to Herto Man.  Dates for Omo 2 are 190,000 years ago; Herto at 160,000 years ago.

The rearranging of the human phylogenetic tree would be severe if this hypothesis were proven to be true.  

Apidima 1 shows Homo sapiens in Europe now at 230,000 years ago.  Was Apitidma 1 Man directly related to Omo 1?

Richard Leakey and his team discovered Omo 1 in southern Ethiopia in 1968, but he didn't realize how magnificent a discovery it was.  He was looking for much older hominin fossils.