Enlarge / The Harbin cranium (left) and the Dali cranium (proper). (credit score: Ni et al. 2021) The reported discovery of a brand new hominin species from China created loads of buzz final week. Its discoverers—paleoanthropologists Xijun Ni, Qiang Ji,
Enlarge (credit score: Hajdinjak et al. 2020) DNA from the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe provides extra element to the story of our species’ growth into Eurasia—and our difficult 5,000-year relationship with Neanderthals. The earliest traces of our species in
Enlarge (credit score: Blinkhorn et al. 2021) The entangled historical past of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals within the Levant (the realm across the jap finish of the Mediterranean) simply bought much more difficult. Paleoanthropologists just lately recognized a tooth from