Enlarge / The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right). (credit: Ni et al. 2021) The reported discovery of a new hominin species from China created a lot of buzz last week. Its discoverers—paleoanthropologists Xijun Ni, Qiang Ji, Chris Stringer, and their colleagues—say that a skull discovered near Harbin, in northeast China, has a […]
Enlarge / Neanderthals and Denisovans probably enjoyed the view from Denisova cave, too. (credit: flickr user: loronet) At various points in the last 300,000 years, Denisova Cave has sheltered three different species of hominins. But with fossils from only eight individuals—four Denisovans, three Neanderthals, and the daughter of a Neanderthal/Denisovan pairing—it’s hard to tell a […]
Expand / All these excavations identified Denisovan DNA inside the sediment. The Denisovans occupy an extremely bizarre place in humankind’s history. Such as the Neanderthals, they’re an {} branch away from the lineage that made modern people and afterwards intermingled with modern people. But we had understood of Neanderthals for about 150 years until we […]
Replies of Modern Human and Neanderthal skulls in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. (charge: hairymuseummatt) We are aware that Neanderthals left their mark {} the DNA of several contemporary people, but {} functioned both ways. The bands of Neanderthals our species fulfilled in Eurasia about 45,000 years ago previously {} a few Homo sapiens […]