Human Evolution's Biggest Questions May Find Answers in New Analysis

Recent controversies about human evolution — such as what the ancestor of the human lineage might have been, whether the mysterious "hobbit" was a different species and whether ancient humans were all one species — could find answers in new analyses of human fossils, researchers say.

This research, based on statistical analyses of a newly compiled data set of ancient human fossils, supports the proposal that the recently unearthed species Australopithecus sediba may be the ancestor of the human lineage, that the hobbit was a different species and not just a deformed modern human, and that early humans were made up of two species, not one, scientists added.

Although modern humans are the only surviving members of the human family tree, others once inhabited the Earth. However, deducing the relationships between modern humans and these extinct hominins — humans and related species dating back to the split from the chimpanzee lineage — is difficult because fossils of ancient hominins are rare



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there are two species of human on here didge

there is homo sapiens sapiens

and the lesser homo sapiens

and if thats species-ist tough.........

victorismyhero wrote:there are two species of human on here didge

there is homo sapiens sapiens

and the lesser homo sapiens

and if thats species-ist  tough.........

Naughty Victor, you are very naughty, but exceptionally funny when doing so.