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Illustration of the new hominid discovered in caves Maludong, China Fossils found in two caves of southwest China revealed the existence of a hominid species hitherto unknown. Fossil Stone Age had an unusual mix of archaic wire brush and modern wire brush physical traits, leaving a new clue about human evolution in Asia.
Dating from between 14,500 and 11,500 years, the fossils are hominids coexisted with modern humans (Homo sapiens) in a time when agriculture was in its early days in China, according to a team of international experts in the study published in the journal PLoS One Until now had not been found human fossils less than 100,000 years that Homo sapiens differed physically, which led scientists to think that there was in the region other species wire brush in eastern Asia, hominids, when the first modern humans appeared. With the new discovery, this theory is being questioned.
"These new fossils may be a previously wire brush unknown species that survived until the end of the Ice Age, 11,000 years ago," said Darren Curnoe, University of New South Wales, Australia, who led the study along with Ji Xueping the Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics Yunnan Chinese.
Read more about new species of hominids: African hominids 2 million years has human DNA analysis shows traces of hominid migration unknown Possible new human ancestor found in Siberia is Study confirms: people outside Africa wire brush have Neanderthal genes Genome proof cross between and Neanderthal man According to Curnoe, the other option would be that the fossils if they were representatives of a very early migration from Africa and unknown to modern men who, however, did not contribute genetically to the modern man. The research team is cautious in classifying the fossils because of the unusual mosaic of features they have. The remains of three individuals were found in 1989 by Chinese archaeologists in Maludong (in translation from Chinese, the Red Deer Cave) near the city of Mengzi, Yunnan province, but only began to be studied in 2008 by Chinese and Australian scientists.
While Asia now has more than half the world's population, scientists still know little about how modern humans evolved in this locality after their ancestors settled in Eurasia about 70,000 years.
So far studies on human origins focused mainly in Europe and in Africa, largely due to the absence of fossils in Asia and the ignorance of the few ancient remains found in this area.
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Illustration of the new hominid discovered in caves Maludong, China Fossils found in two caves of southwest China revealed the existence of a hominid species hitherto unknown. Fossil Stone Age had an unusual mix of archaic wire brush and modern wire brush physical traits, leaving a new clue about human evolution in Asia.
Dating from between 14,500 and 11,500 years, the fossils are hominids coexisted with modern humans (Homo sapiens) in a time when agriculture was in its early days in China, according to a team of international experts in the study published in the journal PLoS One Until now had not been found human fossils less than 100,000 years that Homo sapiens differed physically, which led scientists to think that there was in the region other species wire brush in eastern Asia, hominids, when the first modern humans appeared. With the new discovery, this theory is being questioned.
"These new fossils may be a previously wire brush unknown species that survived until the end of the Ice Age, 11,000 years ago," said Darren Curnoe, University of New South Wales, Australia, who led the study along with Ji Xueping the Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics Yunnan Chinese.
Read more about new species of hominids: African hominids 2 million years has human DNA analysis shows traces of hominid migration unknown Possible new human ancestor found in Siberia is Study confirms: people outside Africa wire brush have Neanderthal genes Genome proof cross between and Neanderthal man According to Curnoe, the other option would be that the fossils if they were representatives of a very early migration from Africa and unknown to modern men who, however, did not contribute genetically to the modern man. The research team is cautious in classifying the fossils because of the unusual mosaic of features they have. The remains of three individuals were found in 1989 by Chinese archaeologists in Maludong (in translation from Chinese, the Red Deer Cave) near the city of Mengzi, Yunnan province, but only began to be studied in 2008 by Chinese and Australian scientists.
While Asia now has more than half the world's population, scientists still know little about how modern humans evolved in this locality after their ancestors settled in Eurasia about 70,000 years.
So far studies on human origins focused mainly in Europe and in Africa, largely due to the absence of fossils in Asia and the ignorance of the few ancient remains found in this area.
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