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- International team of scientists has described an ancient human fossil in China unlike any other hominin found before.
- It resembles neither the lineage that split to form Neanderthals, nor Denisovans, nor us.
- It is suggesting our current version of the human family tree needs another branch.
- The jaw, skull, and leg bones belonging to this yet-to-be classified hominin, labelled HLD 6.
- These HLD 6 does not resemble the Homo erectus species, which survived in Indonesia until about 100,000 years ago.
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