[edcoil]

The creature, nicknamed "Woman X" for the time being, could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and appears only distantly related to modern humans or Neanderthals, the researchers reported.

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[Vaquero]

[trad_anglican]

Helen Thomas pic in 5 ... 4 ...

[allmendream]

The sequence indicates the hominin’s line diverged about a million years ago from the line that gave rise to both humans and Neanderthals and that split about 500,000 years ago.

That makes it younger than Homo erectus, the pre-human that spread out of Africa to much of the world about 1.9 million years ago.

“It is some new creature that has not been on our radar screen so far,” said Svaante Paabo, a colleague of Krause’s who specializes in analyzing ancient DNA.

And it would have lived near to both modern humans and Neanderthals. “There were at least three ... different forms of humans in this area 40,000 years ago,” Paabo said.

[Gapplega]

Known as a typical drunk Russkie.

[johniegrad]

"Woman X"

Is that the wife of Quanell X?

[Westbrook]

Hominid of the Month Club.

Is this another “missing link” or is it another “dead branch”?

[oh8eleven]

"It was a sequence that looked something like humans but really quite different."
Sounds like some Globull Warming science going on here.

[devolve]

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Ping of Interest:

“The (Siberian) creature, nicknamed “Woman X” for the time being, could have lived as recently as 30,000 years ago and appears only distantly related to modern humans or Neanderthals, the researchers reported.”

[bunkerhill7]

The creature, nicknamed “Woman X” = “The Perfect 10”

[fish hawk]

So is it a new human ancestor OR a pre-human ancestor. Big difference between the two. One is human and one is not. That's why I never get too excited about this crap. It can't be both and if they don't know, then they don't know any more about it than I do.

[Revolting cat!]

Woman X? I once knew Woman XXX...

[Revolting cat!]

She Was Hot!

[LachlanMinnesota]

Any relation to Malcolm X?