A lost family member (hominid) has been found!! Cool!!!!
Ancient Skull Found in China Is Unlike Any Human Seen Before
An international team of scientists has described an ancient human fossil in China unlike any other hominid found before.
It resembles neither the lineage that split to form Neanderthals, nor Denisovans, nor us, suggesting our current version of the human family tree needs another branch.
The jaw, skull, and leg bones belonging to this yet-to-be classified human, labeled HLD 6, were discovered in Hualongdong, in East Asia, in 2019. In the years since, experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have struggled to match the remains to a known lineage.
The hominid's face is similarly structured to that of the modern human lineage, which split from Homo erectus as far back as 750,000 years ago. But the individual's lack of chin appears more like that of a Denisovan – an extinct species of ancient human in Asia that split from Neanderthals more than 400,000 years ago.
Working alongside researchers from China's Xi'an Jiaotong University, the UK's University of York, and Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution, researchers at CAS think they have uncovered an entirely new lineage – a hybrid between the branch that gave us modern humans and the branch that gave us other ancient hominids in the region, like Denisovans.
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-skull-found-in-china-is-unlike-any-human-seen-before
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Neat!!
I love science!
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He was married, had a pregnant wife at home and impregnated a campaign surrogate at the same time. You know. Typical tfgop family values.
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