Is Homo erectus The Most Over Rated Human Ancestor

Peking Man was supposed to be an evolutionary dead end, a primitive relic pushed aside after the rise of the Out of Africa model turned East Asia into a human evolutionary backwater. But a stunning new protein study from China has suddenly changed the conversation. Scientists recovered molecular traces from 400,000 year old Homo erectus teeth, and the results suggest these ancient populations were connected to mysterious Denisovan ancestry still found in living people today. Peking Man is back in the center of the human story.

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https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/ho...