New Species of Human found in China?

[Nightangel8212]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-chinese-fossils-may-human-species-150805074.html

...not alive and running around, obviously, but.... fossilized remains that are unlike any that scientists have seen before. These people resided in caves and their diets consisted mostly of Red Deer.

Be wary of the comments. Many of them are facepalm worthy.

[Cataclysm]

I haven't seen any creationist comments so far, that's good.

[SimSim]

Surprising how late they lived considering they had so many archaic features. Died out about 11,500 ago, so right about the time the last ice age ended and agriculture started taking off.

Also interesting is that means there were 4 overlapping species of humans living in Asia at the same time. Modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovians(sp?), and now these people.

I'll have to attempt to read the journal article this weekend.

[gyeonghwa]

Surprising how late they lived considering they had so many archaic features. Died out about 11,500 ago, so right about the time the last ice age ended and agriculture started taking off.

Also interesting is that means there were 4 overlapping species of humans living in Asia at the same time. Modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovians(sp?), and now these people.

I'll have to attempt to read the journal article this weekend.

There is speculations that Homo floresiensis may have been contemporary with early Homo Sapien. That would make five groups.

[SimSim]

That's interesting, I hadn't heard that before. With how interesting I found this stuff I wish I had learned more about biological and paleoanthropology than historical archaeology.