RE: Remains of new human species found
September 10, 2015 at 8:02 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2015 at 8:05 am by Anomalocaris.)
No word on the age of the fossil.
But looks to be considerably less sapien like than Erectus, perhaps similar to or even contempraneous with ergaster. This suggest it is either quite old, or is a long lasting member of an old lineage. If this hominid had a burial custom, as implied, it would threaten to shatter established notions of how large and advanced the brain need to be to support cognitive basis for conceptualizing afterlife. This creature has a brain far closer in size to those of a chimp than those of a erectus, much less Neanderthal or sapien.
But looks to be considerably less sapien like than Erectus, perhaps similar to or even contempraneous with ergaster. This suggest it is either quite old, or is a long lasting member of an old lineage. If this hominid had a burial custom, as implied, it would threaten to shatter established notions of how large and advanced the brain need to be to support cognitive basis for conceptualizing afterlife. This creature has a brain far closer in size to those of a chimp than those of a erectus, much less Neanderthal or sapien.
