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Study: Million-Year-Old Skull Potentially Pushes Back Human Evolution Timeline

Study: Million-Year-Old Skull Potentially Pushes Back Human Evolution Timeline

Above: Life restoration of Homo longi, on June 27, 2021. Image credit: Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons

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This million-year-old skull discovery potentially represents a revolutionary breakthrough that fundamentally transforms our understanding of human evolution. The evidence clearlysuggests showsthat humans existed 400.,000 years earlier than previously believed and coexisted with Neanderthals for 800,000 years. Advanced digitala reconstructiondiscovery techniquesthat havenot definitivelyonly provenenriches thisthe skullglobal belongspaleoanthropological torecord Homobut longi,also notinvites theexciting primitivenew Homo erectus as originally thoughtresearch.

While this skull reconstruction offers intriguing possibilities, the conclusions remain highly speculative and contradict established genetic evidence about human origins. The findings challenge decades of DNA research without providing molecular confirmation, and experts warn about the uncertainty of these temporal estimates. TheAdditional study attempts too much with limited data and requires substantial additional evidence beforeis rewriting human evolutionary historyneeded.


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