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A nearly complete skull found in Greece, known as the Petralona skull, has been dated to be at least 286,000 years old using U-series dating, shedding light on its place in human evolutionary history and suggesting it belongs to a distinct, primitive Homo group that coexisted with other hominin species in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene.
Paleontologists discovered teeth of two different ancient human lineages at the same site in Ethiopia, suggesting that our ancestors and australopithecines coexisted and evolved side by side over hundreds of thousands of years, challenging the traditional linear view of human evolution.
Humans have a complex evolutionary history with at least 16 recognized species within the genus Homo, and possibly up to 30 if including all hominins since our divergence from chimpanzees around 6.5 million years ago. The first species of Homo is generally considered to be Homo habilis, which appeared about 2.3 million years ago, but earlier hominins like Sahelanthropus and Ardipithecus may also be considered early ancestors depending on the definitions used.