Intersting article...some of the links from others on the thread good aswell.
Hypothesis:
If the Homo Sapien skull from China is this advanced..it would also reveal a strong DNA mapping.
If the skull is like ours..then the rest of the system..is like ours...
Therefore..the ability to procreate successfully.
In the supposition..then mankind should have been populating the planet in numbers that would stagger our imagination...or..they were cut back.
I can nod to the Skull from China with the dating..but then I need some system introducing itself in intervals to snuff manout...cut him back to low number thresholds.
Both of us agree on the mechanics of catastrophism.
If this skull is on..and is DNA sound ..matches us..then this planet has been rocked by Catrastrophism to a scale we can't imagine..because millions would have to be getting obliterated...in continuing cycles.
The other concern is habitation...they have some going back 15,000...a few.
Again..if left to a gradual curve without catastrophism..man would have been doing the habitation thingy much earlier than 15,000..and we would have numerous sites..globally.
If the skull is on...then so must the catastrophism.
The article doesn't say, but I suspect that there isn't any DNA left in this find. Typically, bone that is buried becomes a fossil by mineral replacement of the original structure. (Some of the most beautiful fossils I have seen were opalized - that is, silica-rich groundwaters percolated through the sediments and replaced the original calcium with opal) The best we can probably hope for is age-dating the fossils and the sediments in which they were found.