Fossil fragments (yellow) were set together alongside their mirror-image pieces (purple) to visualize the skull of an archaic human who lived inwards eastern China.
Fossil fragments (yellow) were set together alongside their mirror-image pieces (purple) to visualize the skull of an archaic human who lived inwards eastern China.
Z. Li et al., Science 355, 6328 (3 March 2017)
Ancient skulls may belong to elusive humans called Denisovans
By Ann GibbonsMar. 2, 2017 , 2:00 PM
Since their uncovering inwards 2010, the extinct H2O ice historic catamenia humans called Denisovans cause got been known exclusively from bits of DNA, taken from a sliver of os inwards the Denisova Cave inwards Siberia, Russia. Now, 2 partial skulls from eastern Communist People's Republic of China are emerging equally prime number candidates for showing what these shadowy people may cause got looked like.
In a newspaper published this calendar week inwards Science, a Chinese-U.S. squad presents 105,000- to 125,000-year-old fossils they telephone telephone “archaic Homo.” They authorities annotation that the bones could live on a novel type of human or an eastern variant of Neandertals. But although the squad avoids the word, “everyone else would wonder whether these mightiness live on Denisovans,” which are unopen cousins to Neandertals, says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum inwards London.
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