Million-year-old skull rewrites human evolution, say scientists

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx01ve5151o

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7uWqKj@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 326d

Don’t think that guy is going to be rewriting anything, he looks pretty dead to me

Herman@hilariouschaos.com · 2 pts · 325d

Just in case anyone is interested this is bad science. Homo Longii is at this point generally agreed to be Denisovan. This, Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens all evolved from Homo Erectus. Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA was introgressed into our gene pool during multiple breeding events where we ultimately won Y & mtDNA fitness competitions. These hypotheses were fine before we had the DNA mapped