Friday, December 18, 2015 07:24
Puzzle of human evolution and has one more piece. Just a thigh bone found in China by an international team of paleontologists has been sufficient to prove that an ancient human species, believed extinct for tens of thousands of years, actually managed to survive until very recent times, in particular to the end of the last Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago.
The fossil, found in the enigmatic Red Deer Cave has been, in fact, have characteristics that relate directly to some of the earliest members of the genus Homo , to which we all belong. And this despite the bone just have 14,000 years old.
The discovery was made by a team of researchers led by Darren Curnoe, of the Australian University of New South Wales, and Ji Xueping, the Institute of Archaeology of Yunnan in China. The study focuses on a detailed analysis of a fragment of femur, for more than a quarter century, remained guarded and unstudied in a museum in Yunnan after being found in 1989 along with other human remains in the cave Red Deer.
To the surprise of researchers, who have chosen to be very cautious about attributing a particular identity to the fossil, the analysis resulted in features coincide perfectly with those of Homo habilis and Homo erectus, who lived and prospered for over a million and a half years.
“The new finding explains Curnoe- opens the possibility of a pre-modern species could have overlapped in time with modern humans in mainland East Asia, although this case will slowly build, with New fossil discoveries “
Source:.? http://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-aparece-china-misteriosa-especie-humana-201512180910_noticia.html
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