Image of the Day: New Kid on the Block
Ancient skulls discovered in China may belong to a new hominid species that possessed both modern human and Neanderthal characteristics.
Mar 5, 2017
Superior view (left) and posterior view (right) of the cranium.WU XIUJIE(Z. Li et al., “Late Pleistocene archaic human crania from Xuchang, China,” Science, doi: 10.1126/science.aal2482, 2017.)
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