"Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray"

Today I wanted to talk about a very interesting article that I found on the internet; "Skull of Homo erectus throws story of human evolution into disarray", written by Ian Sample.

The present article tells us how the founding of an ancient Homo Erectus skull forced the scientific community to rethink the theory of the human evolution.

In Georgia -specifically in  Dmanisi- on 2005 was found the oldest remains of a human ancestor; an 2,4 million years old skull. This skull was older than any other Homo Erectus found in Africa (to where presumably the H. Erectus comes from) and did not differ much from it. After different studies and investigation, anthropologist, as David Lordkipanidze -who leads the Dmanisi excavations-, stared to theorize that maybe all the assortment “homo” species could be just one with a wide diversity.
 

What it’s mean? In a few words, that if this latest theory is accepted, all the different “homos” –rudolfensis, ergaster, habilis, etc-  will disappear, and become all part from the same evolutionary  taxonomic line. But this new idea also has detractors, like Chris Stringer, who defends the thought that due to the huge size of Africa, it’s impossible that all of the African species are just the variety of the Homo Erectus. However, he does not deny that  different species could be part of the same lineage.
 

Being this one of the latest anthropology discussion, you can go and read the article through this link: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/17/skull-homo-erectus-human-evolution