Fossil skull doubts modern human ancestry

[Still Waters]

Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of an early human found in Africa, potentially upending human evolution knowledge with their discovery.

The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of the early human species Homo heidelbergensis and was estimated to be about 500,000 years old.

Discovered in 1921 by miners in Zambia, the Broken Hill remains have been difficult to date due to their haphazard recovery and the site being completely destroyed by quarrying.

Using radiometric dating methods, Professor Grün's analyses now puts the skull at a relatively young date, estimating it is between 274,000 and 324,000 years old.

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-fossil-skull-modern-human-ancestry.html

[Grim Reaper 6]

10 minutes ago, Still Waters said:

Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of an early human found in Africa, potentially upending human evolution knowledge with their discovery.

The Broken Hill (Kabwe 1) skull is one of the best-preserved fossils of the early human species Homo heidelbergensis and was estimated to be about 500,000 years old.

Discovered in 1921 by miners in Zambia, the Broken Hill remains have been difficult to date due to their haphazard recovery and the site being completely destroyed by quarrying.

Using radiometric dating methods, Professor Grün's analyses now puts the skull at a relatively young date, estimating it is between 274,000 and 324,000 years old.

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-fossil-skull-modern-human-ancestry.html

Thanks for sharing that was really interesting.

Peace

[Piney]

1 hour ago, Still Waters said:

Griffith University scientists have led an international team to date the skull of an early human found in Africa, potentially upending human evolution knowledge with their discovery.

No, it just proved another one of our ancestor/relatives lived alongside of us for a time, which happens a lot among living things. Human only split from them about 350-250,000 years ago so it put it in the proper time frame.  .