And now for the third and final part of this wholly unintended series on new discoveries regarding human evolution[1]. This concerns a large human skull found in China that has some saying it represents a new species.
[*includes video of skull*]
The story indicates there are three papers published in a journal called The Innovation, which I'm not familiar with, which are:
Massive cranium from Harbin in northeastern China establishes a new Middle Pleistocene human lineage
Late Middle Pleistocene Harbin cranium represents a new Homo species
Geochemical provenancing and direct dating of the Harbin archaic human cranium
Which can be read in their entirety at the above links.
If they succeed in extracting testable DNA from the remains that would go a long way in either verifying or falsifying the claims.
1. New human species? and DNA tests help clear up questions about who lived in Denisova Cave in Altai Mountains
[*includes video of skull*]
The story indicates there are three papers published in a journal called The Innovation, which I'm not familiar with, which are:
Massive cranium from Harbin in northeastern China establishes a new Middle Pleistocene human lineage
Late Middle Pleistocene Harbin cranium represents a new Homo species
Geochemical provenancing and direct dating of the Harbin archaic human cranium
Which can be read in their entirety at the above links.
If they succeed in extracting testable DNA from the remains that would go a long way in either verifying or falsifying the claims.
1. New human species? and DNA tests help clear up questions about who lived in Denisova Cave in Altai Mountains
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