Possible New Human Species Discovered In China

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @10:33AM from the family-tree-gets-another-branch dept.

BayaWeaver writes "These are exciting times in anthropology. Recent analysis of fossils first discovered in China in 1979 indicate that a human-like species may have co-existed with modern humans as late as 11,500 years ago. This presumably new species has been nicknamed Red Deer Cave people because of their apparent taste for the extinct giant red deer. Other species recently discovered include: the 'hobbits' on the Indonesian island of Flores which are also thought to have been around until 12,000 years ago and the Denisovans discovered in 2010 that co-existed with modern humans in Siberia about 30,000 years ago."

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Fascinating! by SultanCemil · 2012-03-14 10:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

I, for one, think this is absolutely fascinating! The thought that, as recently as 10k years ago, there were other species of human is amazing - that's not far off of written history!

I wonder if we could think about cloning these people - is the DNA "fresh" enough?

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1. Re:Fascinating! by Sponge+Bath · 2012-03-14 10:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ...as recently as 10k years ago
  4000 years before God created Earth? You can't fool me with your elitist education.
Re:Ok, how many more are there? by Anne_Nonymous · 2012-03-14 10:58 · Score: 5, Funny

>> Homo Sapiens, ...Neanderthals, Floresians..., Denisovans
Also the Orange People of New Jersey.