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Homo sapiens idaltu is an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens that lived over 160,000 years ago in Africa. Its fossilized remains were discovered in Ethiopia in 2003. This fossil differs from those of early forms of H. sapiens sapiens such as Cro-Magnon found in EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se and other parts of the world in that its morphology has many archaic features not typical of H. sapiens. It appears to be the oldest representative of the H. sapiens species found so far. The name idaltu is an AmharicIntroduction Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Northern Central Ethiopia, where it is the official language. Outside Ethiopia, Amharic is the language of some 2. 7 million emigrants (notably in Egypt, Israel and Sweden). It is written using a writin word for "elder".

1 See also

• Human evolutionHuman evolution as a scientific field has a long and sometimes controversial history, however, since the mid- 1990s, there has been a remarkable convergence of views about how humans have evolved. This convergence includes paleoanthropologists, geneticist

2 References

• White et al, Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, Nature, 423:742-7 (2003).