How far back can you go and find anatomically modern humans? How “modern” would they be?

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I know I can just google the answer to this, but what I’m wondering is what exactly is the definition of an anatomically modern human? A human who can reproduce with a modern human? I’m wondering, if you go back 150,000 years and get a human from that time and raise them in modern society, would they be in any way different? Would anything give them away?

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Modern humans (*Homo sapiens*) emerged about 300,000 years ago. They would look different due to differences in lifestyle and environment, but anatomically they were human.
There were other species of *Homo* extant, but H. sapiens remains the only extant species of *Hominina*

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