'Homo' who? A new mystery human species has been discovered in Israel
- Written by Michelle Langley, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
An international group of archaeologists have discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution.
Excavations at the Israeli site of Nesher Ramla have recovered a skull that may represent a late-surviving example of a distinct Homo population, which lived in and around modern-day Israel from about 420,000 to 120,000 years ago.
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