New human species discovered 

An international group of archaeologists has discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution. 

Key Points: 

• Excavations at the Israeli site of Nesher Ramla have recovered a skull that may represent a late-surviving example of a distinct Homo population, which lived in and around modern-day Israel from about 420,000 to 120,000 years ago.

• Analysis finds that this jaw belonged to people who were neither fully Homo sapiens nor were Neanderthals. 

• They found a parietal bone featuring “archaic” traits that are different from both early and recent Homo sapiens. Bone is considerably thicker than those found in Neanderthals and other homo sapiens.