Phys.org says, "HomoSapiens originated from a single, common ancestor that lived in Africa 300,000 years ago."

That contention has been debunked .. a carved bust photographed in Gusev Crater on Mars by NASA's Spirit Rover in 2008 shows a robed figure wearing a crown, that he could pass for a modern man turns Charles Darwin's Descent of Man on its head, as well it refutes Adam and Eve and the notion men evolved from Ethiopian ape brutes. Link.

Take a look at the Martian 1 image returned by the Curiosity Rover on Sol 127 returned December 2012, that the Martian bears a strong resemblance to Ernie one half of the Sesame Street Bert and Ernie brotherhood, is evidence manned missions had been to Mars by the time their characters appeared, which predated the NASA Rovers by decades.