Ancient Human Fossils Reveal Diversity In Early Populations 

Two different fossils discovered just meters away from one-another suggest that early modern humans had a significant level of physical diversity, according to new research published online earlier this week in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLOS One.

By comparing a skull discovered at a cave in Laos in 2009 with a mandible located nearby in 2010, University of Illinois anthropology professor Dr. Laura Shackelford and her colleagues found that there was likely “a large range of morphological variation” in early modern humans.


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