FOSSILS. Last October was published an article in PNAS presenting a new member of our species coming from Zhirendong, China. Ok, one modern human fossil from China? Yes, but 100,000 years old, meaning at least 50,000 years older than the oldest modern that we usually teach in our courses. To be honest, I am still mentioning another old guy from Jinniushan, China that could be older than 200,000y.
Is this new fossil from China (Zhirendong) challenging the Out of Africa model for the origin of modern humans? First the news from the neanderthal genome and now this new fossil from China....Multiregionalists must be really happy because they are having a great year! Or, maybe, Mostly Out of Africa supporters should be the happy ones?
how interesting!
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