http://n.pr/175uhEr
Conventional wisdom about early human evolution is that several species arose in Africa. But a skull found in the former Soviet state of Georgia could upend this idea. The discovery suggests that there may have been more variety in a single species than previously suspected.
Fossil Find Points To A Streamlined Human Lineage
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Re: Fossil Find Points To A Streamlined Human Lineage
Good article, better than the others I've seen on the same subject. The splitters & the lumpers are gonna have a free for all over this. 
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"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." ~ Alexander Pope