ZHENGZHOU: New evidence has emerged that prehistoric hominids in northern China might have been hybrids of the indigenous population and Europeans, challenging the popular view of humankind’s African origin.
Human cranial fossil remains from 105,000 to 125,000 years ago, found in Xuchang in Central China’s Henan province, share characteristics of Chinese hominids, early modern humans and Neanderthals, a species named for the Neanderthal region of Germany, according to a report in Science magazine.
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