Unearthed Lineages, How New Fossil Discoveries Are Rewriting the Story of Humankind
Recent fossil finds and genetic analyses are upending traditional views of human evolution, revealing a far more diverse and interconnected past than previously thought. Discoveries like a 1.1–1.4 million‑year‑old facial fragment in Spain, provisionally named Homo affinis erectus, and the newly proposed species Homo juluensis in eastern Asia challenge earlier narratives of a single Homo erectus…