'New type of early human' found in Israel
Archaeologist Yossi Zaidner from the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology shows fossil fragments of a skull and jaw at a Tel Aviv University lab in the eponymous Israeli coastal city, on June 27, 2021. The remains that were uncovered at the site of excavations in the quarry of a cement plant near the central city of Ramla, consisted of bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science, researchers said on June 24, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution. GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP.
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.- Bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said Thursday, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution.