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Article: Welcome to the club: did a third human species live among us? (Homo erectus may have been a contemporary)
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- Newsweek
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- December 23, 1996
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Did a third human species live among us?
THE LAB RESULTS WERE SO STUNNING that the first time Carl Swisher got them, he was sure he had made a mistake. A geologist at the Berkeley Geochronology Center, Swisher uses the most advanced techniques to date human fossils. Last spring he was re-evaluating Homo erectus skulls found in Java in the 1930s by testing the sediment found with them. A hominid species assumed to be an ancestor of Homo sapiens, erectus was thought to have vanished some 250,000 years ago. But even though he used two different dating methods, Swisher kept making the same startling find: the bones were 53,000 years old at most and possibly no more ...
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