the impression I've got from the variety of places I've been is that the current model is about?? give or take about 200,000 years old
before that - they often throw the term 'early homo sapiens' around
I think a lengthy visit with a lot of bottles of grog to Amiens would solidify matters a lot - if one survived the liver transplant.
The Neanderthal Museum would probably have a fair bit to say about it as well, but, they're more into shorter dumpy hairy people, who appear to have very strong legs.
