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Meet Nesher Ramla Homo - new early human discovered at Israeli cement site

Accepted submission by NPC-131072 at 2021-06-24 22:57:05 from the Pleistocene People dept.
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NPC-131072 [soylentnews.org] writes:

From Reuters [reuters.com]

TEL AVIV, June 24 (Reuters) - Scientists said on Thursday they had discovered a new kind of early human after studying pieces of fossilised bone dug up at a site used by a cement plant in central Israel.

The fragments of a skull and a lower jaw with teeth were about 130,000 years old and could force a rethink of parts of the human family tree, the researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said.

Nesher Ramla Homo - named after the place southeast of Tel Aviv where it was found - may have lived alongside our species, Homo sapiens, for more than 100,000 years, and may have even interbred, according to the findings.

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