Four teeth that were found in a cave in the Tongzi county of southern China don’t fit into the evolutionary family tree of humans. The teeth that are approximately 200,000-years-old were found on the Yanhui cave floor in 1972 and 1983. While they were originally labelled as belonging to Homo erectus, further testing indicated that… Continue reading Ancient Teeth May Possibly Be From A Mysterious Human Relative
Tag: Human Evolution
The first known fossil of a Denisovan skull has been found in a Siberian cave
A new fossil and evidence that the hominids interbred with humans as recently as 15,000 years ago only add to Denisovans’ mystery. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-fossil-denisovan-skull-cave-siberia
The fossil finder extraordinaire who’s rewriting human evolution
Lee Berger’s stunning discoveries of huge caches of ancient bones are overturning ideas about our origins, but not everyone likes his methods Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23531450-300-the-fossil-finder-extraordinaire-whos-rewriting-human-evolution/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…