CHINA’S NEW HUMAN SPECIES
Oct 05, 2021
1 minute
—ZACH ZORICH
uring the Japanese occupation of China in 1933, a man working on a bridge in the city of Harbin in the northeastern part of the country discovered a skull and immediately hid, such as a massive brow ridge and low forehead, and traits that appear only in more recent hominins, such as a relatively small face and large brain. The skull could possibly represent a previously unknown human lineage, says Chris Stringer of London’s Natural History Museum. Stringer’s colleagues have named the species
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