John Hawks @johnhawks.net · Oct 4

The D2282 partial cranium from Dmanisi, Georgia, found in 1999, is attributed to Homo erectus and is approximately 1.77 million years old. This specimen, now associated with the D211 mandible, is one of five individuals known from the site, the earliest fossil hominins outside of Africa. #inktober

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@janfrel.bsky.social · Oct 4

What about the new preprint on Bioarchiv, I think saying Bootstrap parsimony points to orig. holotype clusters with Floresiensis, and the other 4 cluster with another species, but that they are sister taxa with Erectus/Erg? Have you weighed in it? This to me = fascinating as Yunxian.