{"id":173276,"date":"2023-10-02T03:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/possible-new-human-species-found-through-300000-year-old-jawbone-fossil"},"modified":"2023-10-02T03:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:23:10","slug":"possible-new-human-species-found-through-300000-year-old-jawbone-fossil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/possible-new-human-species-found-through-300000-year-old-jawbone-fossil","title":{"rendered":"Possible New Human Species Found through 300,000-Year-Old Jawbone Fossil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/possible-new-human-species-found-through-300000-year-old-jawbone-fossil2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery has enabled a more detailed analysis of where the Hualongdong people fit on the human family tree. The mandible has a mixture of both modern and archaic features. For example, the bone along the jawline is thick, a feature shared with early human species, such as <em>Homo erectus<\/em>. It also lacks a true chin, the presence of which is a key feature of <em>Homo sapiens<\/em>. But the side of the mandible that attaches to the upper jaw is thinner than those of archaic hominins and more reminiscent of that of modern humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery has enabled a more detailed analysis of where the Hualongdong people fit on the human family tree. The mandible has a mixture of both modern and archaic features. For example, the bone along the jawline is thick, a feature shared with early human species, such as Homo erectus. It also lacks a true [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173276","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=173276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}