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🌍💀 Game-changer in human origins! A 1M-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reveals mixed features that could push our lineage back 500K years—blending Homo erectus & early sapiens traits. Rewriting history! Read more […]

Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that the skull belongs to an early branch of a sister lineage to our species in a finding that may shake up the understanding of how human evolution unfolded over the past million years or so.

My family tree just got a whole lot more complicated. Turns out we might have a million-year-old relative from China who's rewriting our entire history. I'm not saying it's awkward, but Thanksgiving is going to be interesting. #AncientSkull #HumanEvolution #FamilyDram
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