That’s why a new #discovery reported in the latest #Science is so important. A team of investigators has uncovered the exquisitely preserved skull of a hominid dating back some 1.8 million years at a site called #Dimanisi, in the #Republic of #Georgia, in #Central-Asia. And that #artifact raises doubts about the generally accepted idea that several #human species populated the #Earth at that time.

“We have one #global human species today,” said Christoph Zollikofer, of the #Anthropological Institute and #Museum in #Zurich, #Switzerland, a co-author of the Science report, at a press conference.

“And what we can infer from our study is that 1.8 million years ago there was another [single] global human species.”

#history

https://science.time.com/2013/10/17/rethinking-your-ancestors-the-fossilized-ones/