What can the Dali skull tell us? Sheela Athreya
The origins of our species might聽need a rethink. An analysis of an ancient聽skull from China suggests it is eerily similar聽to the earliest聽known聽fossils聽of our species聽鈥揻ound聽in Morocco,聽some 10,000 kilometres to the聽west.聽The skull hints that modern humans aren鈥檛 solely descended from African ancestors, as is generally thought.
Most anthropologists believe, based on fossil evidence, that our species arose in Africa around 200,000 years ago. What’s more, genetic studies of modern humans indicate that we are all descended from a single population…
