Day: January 21, 2022

INEQUALITY BY THE NUMBERS

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Originally From: https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/inequality-newsletter-january-17-2022.html THIS WEEK “The past is strewn with the ruins of the empires of tyranny, and each is a monument not merely to our blunders but to our capacity to overcome them,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted in 1968, shortly before his death. “That’s why I remain an optimist, though I am also a realist, about the barriers before us.” With global inequality reaching unimaginable heights, the barriers we face today can certainly seem immovable. But if Dr. King could remain hopeful, as Dedrick Asante-Muhammad reflects below, so…

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Homo sapiens bones in East Africa are at least 36,000 years older than once thought

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Volcanic ash dating pushes back the age of human fossils found in Ethiopia to 233,000 years ago By Bruce Bower JANUARY 12, 2022 AT 11:00 AM Fossils from the oldest known Homo sapiens individual in East Africa are more ancient than previously thought. A partial H. sapiens skull and associated skeletal parts found in 1967 in the Kibish rock formation along Ethiopia’s Omo River date to at least around 233,000 years ago, pushing back the age of the fossils by 36,000 years or more. An age well exceeding 200,000 years for the Ethiopian fossils, known…

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