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Meet Nesher Ramla Homo: New form of human found [View all]
A remarkable fossil find has indicated that two peoples once shared the Middle East for thousands of generations. Their co-existence was extraordinary because these groups were different types of humans.
Fragments of bone dating from about 130,000 years ago have been identified as a previously unknown form of human, distinct from Homo sapiens.
Named the Nesher Ramla Homo, it was a more primitive member of our evolutionary tree. It is likely to have had features such as a prominent brow ridge, large teeth and no chin.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/meet-nesher-ramla-homo-new-form-of-human-found-970snz87q
Nesher Ramla and Homo sapiens are thought to have mixed, shared knowledge and interbred
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