Fragments of a jaw bone unearthed in China have a mosaic of features that are present in both modern and archaic humans, making it difficult to place on the human evolutionary tree.
A new archaic human species dating back 300,000 years has been found in East China. This individual has distinct features not seen in modern humans, Neanderthals, or Denisovans.
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