(To the tune of Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man)
Hey, Homo Sapiens woman, Neanderthal man
We get together every time we can
Being different species can't keep us apart
There's too much love in this Neanderthal heart
Too much love in this Homo Sapiens heart
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/02/male-neanderthals-and-female-homo-sapiens/

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull, dubbed Yunxian 2, is one of three unearthed from a terrace alongside the Han River, in central China, in a layer of river sediment somewhere between 600,000 and 1 million years old. Archaeologists originally identified them as Homo erectus, but Hanjiang Normal University paleoanthropologist Xiaobo Feng and his colleaguesâ recent digital reconstruction of Yunxian 2 suggests the skulls may actually have belonged to someone a lot more similar to us: a hominin group defined as a species called Homo longi or a Denisovan, depending on whoâs doing the naming. The recent paper adds fuelâand a new twistâto that debate. And the whole thing may hinge on a third skull from the same site, still waiting to be published. Read full article Comments

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull, dubbed Yunxian 2, is one of three unearthed from a terrace alongside the Han River, in central China, in a layer of river sediment somewhere between 600,000 and 1 million years old. Archaeologists originally identified them as Homo erectus, but Hanjiang Normal University paleoanthropologist Xiaobo Feng and his colleaguesâ recent digital reconstruction of Yunxian 2 suggests the skulls may actually have belonged to someone a lot more similar to us: a hominin group defined as a species called Homo longi or a Denisovan, depending on whoâs doing the naming. The recent paper adds fuelâand a new twistâto that debate. And the whole thing may hinge on a third skull from the same site, still waiting to be published. Read full article Comments

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull, dubbed Yunxian 2, is one of three unearthed from a terrace alongside the Han River, in central China, in a layer of river sediment somewhere between 600,000 and 1 million years old. Archaeologists originally identified them as Homo erectus, but Hanjiang Normal University paleoanthropologist Xiaobo Feng and his colleaguesâ recent digital reconstruction of Yunxian 2 suggests the skulls may actually have belonged to someone a lot more similar to us: a hominin group defined as a species called Homo longi or a Denisovan, depending on whoâs doing the naming. The recent paper adds fuelâand a new twistâto that debate. And the whole thing may hinge on a third skull from the same site, still waiting to be published. Read full article Comments

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull, dubbed Yunxian 2, is one of three unearthed from a terrace alongside the Han River, in central China, in a layer of river sediment somewhere between 600,000 and 1 million years old. Archaeologists originally identified them as Homo erectus, but Hanjiang Normal University paleoanthropologist Xiaobo Feng and his colleaguesâ recent digital reconstruction of Yunxian 2 suggests the skulls may actually have belonged to someone a lot more similar to us: a hominin group defined as a species called Homo longi or a Denisovan, depending on whoâs doing the naming. The recent paper adds fuelâand a new twistâto that debate. And the whole thing may hinge on a third skull from the same site, still waiting to be published. Read full article Comments
Gene from High Altitude Yak Protected and Repaired Myelin Sheath in Early MS Study
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