An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.
Many Pleistocene hominin fossils discovered in China have been similarly difficult to classify, and were previously perceived to be anomalies, according to the study. However, this discovery, along with other recent research, is slowly changing what people know of the evolutionary pattern in the late Middle Pleistocene.
It doesn’t seem to be just one anomaly, so it’s probably another addition to the human family tree. Not sure if scientists and paleoanthropologists still use the term “missing link” though, since it implies a linear progression of human evolution.
It doesn’t seem to be just one anomaly, so it’s probably another addition to the human family tree. Not sure if scientists and paleoanthropologists still use the term “missing link” though, since it implies a linear progression of human evolution.