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Humans are the only creatures on Earth whose lower jaw ends in a distinct bony knob, a true chin that juts forward from the rest of the mandible. Fossils show that even our closest extinct relatives, ...
A 300,000-year-old jawbone from a cave in eastern China is quietly reshaping what scientists thought they knew about our origins. Fresh analysis of the Hualongdong mandible, known as HLD 6, reveals a ...