Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany

Anthropologists have long sought to pin down the exact location of the proverbial “Garden of Eden” — the region of our planet where the earliest Homo sapiensemerged.
Over the last two decades, a combination of genetic evidence and data from the fossil record led scientists to conclude that the first members of our species evolved in Eastern Africa about 200,000 years ago.

The Athens Science Festival (ASF) opens its door to public on Tuesday at the City of Athens Technopolis Centre in Gazi, for the third consecutive year, running from 5 to 10 April with a focus on “Evolving with Science”.