from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/human-ancestors-west-asian-site-deemed-two-species
Excerpt:
A controversial fossil and soil analysis concludes that a key West Asian site hosted not one but two Homo species, one living around 1.8 million years ago and another several hundred thousand years later.
A team that excavated partial skeletons at Dmanisi, in the nation of Georgia, categorized the finds as part of one species, Homo erectus, that lived in Africa and West Asia 1.8 million years ago (SN: 11/16/13, p. 6). But disparities in several skeletal features that emerge early in life distinguish a large Dmanisi lower jaw from two smaller ones, signaling the presence of separate species, asserts a team led by paleoanthropologist José María Bermúdez de Castro of the National Research Center on Human Evolution in Burgos, Spain. The small jaws come from a population that was closely related to early African Homo populations, the scientists conclude February 20 in PLOS ONE. The team suggests the larger jaw belonged to Homo georgicus, a poorly understood species.
Excavation director David Lordkipanidze of the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi disagrees. Shape similarities among Dmanisi skulls that fit the lower jaws indicate that only one Homo species occupied the site. Geologic studies show that the Dmanisi fossils are no younger than 1.76 million years old, he adds.....
- DNA studies in Germany found that African Homo species contained/contains no Neanderthal DNA…..
- Neanderthal DNA was found in Euro and Asian DNA specimens.
- Chicken/Egg questions present now as previous “theories” (not facts) which insisted that the “Out of Africa” stories we were told now turn out to be just stories that sounded good to certain people and groups.
- Does skin pigment go away for some Europeans and not others? Where did the Neanderthal DNA go if Africans were the first in Northern Europe and Asia?
- I am sure some PC/Global BS types can come up with an answer backed up with evidence like the Neanderthal DNA test results found in Germany.
- Now - DNA tests on early North American, Central American, and South American remains. - This will be blocked and protested by alleged “native Americans” as they have done in several controversial skeletal finds. Bet on it.
- Is a puzzlement…….