New Skull Could Be from Human Group that Interbred with Neandertals

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New Skull Could Be from Human Group that Interbred with Neandertalshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14134;

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New Skull Could Be from Human Group that Interbred with Neandertals

A 55,000-year-old incomplete skull found in Israel may belong to a human group that interbred with Neanderthals. Discovered deep in a cave by amateur speleologists, the partial cranium also fills a major gap in the fossil record of Homo sapiens’ journey from Africa to Europe.

“Here we actually hold a skull of a human being that was living next to the Neanderthals,” says Israel Hershkovitz, the leader of a study published today in Nature (I. Hershkovitz et al. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature14134;

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Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the Asian continent, the discovery of a mandible (jaw) between 60 to 120 meters (197 to 394') deep on the sea floor of the Penghu Channel west of Taiwan and may have come from a previously unknown species of early human that most closely resembles either a form of Homo erectus or Archaic Homo sapiens.






Further reading:

The first archaic Homo from Taiwan Abstract & Paper

Big-toothed fossil may be primitive new human

Ancient Human Fossil Could Be New Primitive Species

An archaic human from the bed of the Taiwan Strait

Fossil suggests 4th group of early humans