Narmada Human

So everybody just started calling the Maba fossil archaic Homo sapiens, right? Um, but it's interesting, if we actually go back and, and restudy that fossil now, now that we're s- the field seems to be much more open to the idea that Neanderthals are actually much more widespread than previously assumed, right? So it hasn't been recla- it hasn't been reclassified yet, so if you go to the, the, you know, where w- you know, the papers that we've been publishing in recent years, we keep it as an outlier, separate, um, Homo longi and separate from Homo juluensis.

The Maba fossil and then, uh, Hathnora in India, um, there's a lot of similarities there, and so people suggest that these two fossils may, may be very, very similar, right? And they, they could be assigned to the same.

But it was never clear whether we should call these guys, uh, Neanderthals or not, and, and the, the field's very conservative, right? And so the, you know, a lot of people were not willing to say that Neanderthals were in China at, at that time.

But I, I think we need to be much more open-minded now with all of the changes that we're seeing, uh, in the field.

So if you go to the, you know, where, you know, the papers that we've been publishing in recent years, we keep it as an outlier, separate from Homo longi and separate from Homo juliensis.

The Maba fossil and then Hathnora in India, there's a lot of similarities there.

And so people have suggested that these two fossils may be very, very similar, right? And they could be assigned to the same.

But It was never clear whether we should call these guys Neanderthals or not.