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In case you were distracted by other things this week, such as, oh I dunno, the global pandemic, this was actually an extraordinary week for anthropology. Here's a summary with links.
(1) Re-dating of H. heidelbergensis Broken Hill skull makes it contemporaneous to the emergence of modern humans some 299,000 years ago https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2165-4
(2) Homo antecessor is likely closely related to the last common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2153-8
(3) Partial remains of juvenile H. naledi specimen analyzed for growth patterns http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230440
These three papers are summarized in my @gizmodo article https://gizmodo.com/humanitys-origin-story-just-got-more-complicated-1842616478
(4) Homo erectus is older than we thought, and it lived alongside two non-human hominins, Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus sediba some 2 million years ago https://gizmodo.com/this-tiny-skull-cap-is-rocking-what-we-know-about-an-an-1842643777
(5) And finally, as reported by @RyanFMandelbaum, Lucy the Australopithecine had a brain that was part human, part ape https://gizmodo.com/lucys-brain-was-part-ape-part-human-1842617947
And as a note to you anthropologists out there, talk amongst yourselves and refrain from dropping all the good stuff onto us science reporters AT THE SAME TIME.
