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Blow to multiple human species idea
The idea that there were several different human species walking the Earth two million years ago has been dealt a blow.
Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species.
Writing in Science, the team says that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus are all part of a single evolving lineage that led to modern humans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24564375
Instead, scientists say early human fossils found in Africa and Eurasia may have been part of the same species.
Writing in Science, the team says that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus are all part of a single evolving lineage that led to modern humans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24564375
I'm intuitively okay with this -- that humans were pretty much a single species once we started wandering long distances. We still are.
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