Comment on Million-year-old skull ‘rewrites human evolution’: Yunxian 2, found in China in 1990, indicates Homo sapiens may have emerged 400,000 years earlier

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karashta@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

“The scientists relied in part on another similar skull to shape their model, and then compared it to more than 100 other specimens.”

Why use this specific similar skull? How similar was it really? We seem to be talking about fine structures in specific areas of the skull. How do they know they picked the right one to base their reconstruction off of?

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