#Naledi enigma
#Floresiensis enigma
#Neanderthal enigma
#Sapiens enigma
etc.
A NEW PARADIGM and a new evolutionary process,
#DNA -driven #ProgRetrogProg Evolution, can better explain them.

And, the 700 ka old Mata Menge hominin from Flores Island is NOT ancestral to H. floresiensis, instead, one of Erectus' retrogressive forms in NEW PARADIGM:
dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf...

#Paleoanthropology #Archaeology

Skhul 9, male or female?
According to Karen Rosenberg (1988), FEMALE (see above post)
Oldest-known intentional burial of #Sapiens and #Neanderthal (perhaps ~140 ka old)
@krosencek.bsky.social
#Paleoanthropology #Archaeology

Not unexpected because REAL #Neanderthals were another form of #Sapiens originated from the Levantine #macroevolution ~140,000 y ago.
NEW PARADIGM for #Paleoanthropology & #Archaeology
dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf...

" I much prefer temporal adjectives to modern/archaic"

In NEW PARADIGM:
Post-140 ka Homo=HUMAN (incl. REAL Neanderthals)
Pre-140 ka Homo=Pre-Human or Pseudo-Human

"Homo sapiens' DNA-driven birth and ProgRetrogProg evolution"
dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf...