{"id":169428,"date":"2023-08-10T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/300000-year-old-skull-found-in-china-unlike-any-early-human-seen-before"},"modified":"2023-08-10T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:22:38","slug":"300000-year-old-skull-found-in-china-unlike-any-early-human-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/300000-year-old-skull-found-in-china-unlike-any-early-human-seen-before","title":{"rendered":"300,000-year-old skull found in China unlike any early human seen before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/300000-year-old-skull-found-in-china-unlike-any-early-human-seen-before.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/02\/world\/oldest-swimming-jellyfish-fossils-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ancient skull<\/a> dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers from China, Spain and the United Kingdom unearthed the skull \u2014 specifically the mandible, or lower jaw \u2014 in the Hualongdong region of eastern China in 2015, along with 15 other specimens, all thought to originate from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-022-07816-x#:~:text=The%20late%20Middle%20Pleistocene%2C%20starting, of%20our%20species%E2%80%94Homo%20sapiens.\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">late Middle Pleistocene<\/a> period.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe the late Middle Pleistocene, which started around 300,000 years ago, was a pivotal period for the evolution of hominins \u2014 species that are regarded as human or closely related \u2014 including modern humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, potentially pointing to a new branch in the human family tree, according to new research. An international team of researchers from China, Spain and the United Kingdom unearthed the skull \u2014 specifically the mandible, or lower jaw \u2014 in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}