New Neandertal Discovery Raises Unanswered Questions About Human Evolution Re-examination of a circa 100,000-year-old archaic early human skull found 35 years ago in Northern China has revealed the surprising presence of an inner-ear formation long thought to occur only in Neandertals. “The discovery places into question a whole suite of scenarios of later Pleistocene human population dispersals and interconnections based on tracing isolated anatomical or genetic features in fragmentary fossils,” said study co-author Erik Trinkaus, a physical anthropology professor at Washington University in St. Louis. “It suggests, instead, that the later phases of human evolution were more of a labyrinth of biology and peoples than simple lines on maps would suggest.” See More... https://facebook/frombeyondtheedgeoftheknownuniverse?ref_type=bookmark
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