Scientists in China may have found an entirely new lineage of ancient humans after studying fragments of the mandible, skull and leg bones of a fossilised hominid that dates back at least 300,000 years.
A group of palaeontologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University, University of York, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Research Center on Human Evolution noted in their research published in the Journal of Human Evolution that the fossils were excavated from a site in Hualongdong, a region in East China.
The region has revealed an abundance of hominin fossils that dates back to a similar time period. The fossil (mandible and partial cranium) found by the palaeontologists has been labelled HLD 6, the study noted.
