Is This Skull a Missing Link in the Human Family Tree?

The Narmada Hominid skull was found in central India 40 years ago, but it's exact age and classification has mystified anthropologists ever since. Some classify it as an advanced Homo erectus, while others classify it as an archaic homo sapiens because of its large braincase, small browridge, and other features. Remarkably, the Understanding of human evolution in South Asia primarily rests on a solitary partial skullcap from Central India, but its disputed taxonomic status has blurred the picture of human migrations. The discovery provides the first scientifically recorded evidence of human skeletal remains from the Indian subcontinent, dating to the late Middle Pleistocene of 300,000 to 150,000 years ago. The large-brained, robust hominin appeared around 300 thousand years old, in association with mega terrestrial fauna and late Acheulean tool-kits. This dating is important, because if the skull is recognized as an archaic homo sapiens, that could throw a wrench in the Out of Africa hypothesis, and support the idea that Homo Sapiens evolved beyond Africa, possibly the Indian subcontinent, before moving into Africa around 300,000 years ago.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Narmada Hominid
4:15 Skull Morphology
7:40 Tool Industry

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#paleontology #anthropology #neanderthal #india

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[cinemaipswich]

There was never a "missing link". The massive movements of "Hom" across Africa, Asia and Europe is a checkerboard of interaction over half a million years. Oceans and Seas have risen and falled. A billion iterations, each individual in their way over so many centuries has brought us to where we are today.

[RM-yflu]

This actually fits in with the paternal haplogroup data. Which mysteriously is not being widely recognised as significant to the human story by mainstream academia

[kevdimo]

It’s amazing what theories are now coming out about this subject. Will we ever find the answers that we can all agree on? I hope so!

[messiahsgate]

Well at least we don’t ask ourselves silly questions like who would win in a fight. ( like they do with dinosaurs, all the time) this is fascinating and informative, it makes me rethink just exactly what is a human. I personally think I needed someone like a homo Erectus or Neanderthal to guard my scrawny ass in high school.

[kate-mmbi]

most interesting, they have discovered so much more since I studied them when in college many years ago! But, and I am going to throw a wrench into these theories which no one is mentioning. One possible reason for so many different branches, or types could be 'if true' evidence that some genetic manipulation/experimentation has been done many different times in separate groups to enhance them, to bring them further into a higher development capacity and higher cultures. They keep finding evidence of former civilizations that were very advanced in many ways. Where did they come from, who taught them and where did they go? ....Inquiring minds want to know, and I think more and more people are asking these questions too.

[bigred]

Wasn't much of India blanketed in a metre thick layer of volcanic ash from an erruption 70, 000 years ago in Indonesia, covering potential fossil sites.

[robchalmers]

I wonder if there is not a greater diversity of skull types existing among us now than is said to represent the last three clades of humans. We keep looking.

[perrinayebarra]

I find this information to be highly compelling.

[ESL-O.G.]

Highly compelling. I am a layman and find it so cool that there was this 'lord of the rings' type situation going on with many different subspecies living together. So many stories buried in the dirt and time

[czarcastic]

Every year they come up with another missing link.

[DeeegerD]

The "human family tree" starts with, you guessed it, humans.

[garyanderson]

Love your content! Not a fan of the bad reception/video tape effect.

[XDRONIN]

Could it just be a subspecies that evolved independently? and not necessarily related to us? I know we like to connect the puzzle that is our human family, however; it could be the case that this is not a missing link, not linked to us directly at least.

[markgarin]

That's a small brow ridge? But if female, they have a less defined brow ridge.

[survivalistboards]

Not very nice of you to make fun of creationist. I am a creationist but also beleive in science. If you want to know how the two can co-exist let me know.

[vinesh]

Looks like archaic homo sapiens, with Neanderthal(Denisova?) affinities. I always believed Homo sapiens evolved outside Africa. I wouldn't be surprised if it's in some way similar to the Oase skulls from Romania, those specimens had up to 11% Neanderthal DNA. But those skulls were dated to about 35K

[tonkatoytruck]

The advanced stone tools in India suggest independent development and intelligence. Had other homin species had spread or traveled through India, one would think that the technology would have spread with them. This also suggests a great deal of independent evolution in India. I can not help but think about the Georgia discoveries that also date back to 1.7 million years. It is not far fetched that the same early erectus or other hominin made it to India, as well, during these early excursions out of Africa. Or even Asia.

[PastPresentFuture]

I call Denisovan. Just like…cough Homo Longi cough.

[DrCorvid]

Many ancient skulls aren't human but animal yet, obviously differing in composition and form, such as the diff between sapiens and capensis, who didn't descend from anybody we know. We have DNA from them, perhaps, some clans do, and others have archaic animal DNA inputs. But none of it screams evolution to me.