Department of Anatomy, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Science. 2021 Dec 3;374(6572):eabl4336. doi: 10.1126/science.abl4336. Epub 2021 Dec 2.
Hershkovitz . (Reports, 25 June 2021, p. 1424) conclude that the Nesher Ramla (NR) fossils represent a distinctive paleodeme that played a role as a source population for Neanderthals. However, the highly diagnostic features of the Neanderthal mandible—clearly displayed by the NR fossils—are largely overlooked. Our analyses indicate that the NR fossils represent simply a Neanderthal.
赫什科维茨(Reports, 25 June 2021, p. 1424)得出结论,内瑟拉姆拉(NR)化石代表了一个独特的古种群,它在尼安德特人的起源中发挥了作用。然而,尼安德特人下颌骨的高度特征性特征——这些特征在 NR 化石中清晰地显示出来——在很大程度上被忽视了。我们的分析表明,NR 化石只是代表了尼安德特人。