New palaeo article finds evidence of yet another hominid ancestor

[TylerDurden]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3202454/Oldest-modern-hand-1-85-million-years-old-Pinkie-bone-suggests-unknown-giant-ancestors-came-trees-earlier-thought.html

This article is fascinating. It suggests that we were not only descended from homo habilis, but also from a more giant hominid ancestor at that time-period. I always found that the linear evolutionary track, where one entirely different species would supercede the previous one,  seemed dubious, and that a more likely scenario was that various different hominids interbred to produce the next evolved hominids, and therefore were actually the same species as each other, just being different ethnic groups as such or whatever.

[Satya]

I always found that the linear evolutionary track, where one entirely different species would supercede the previous one,  seemed dubious, and that a more likely scenario was that various different hominids interbred to produce the next evolved hominids, and therefore were actually the same species as each other, just being different ethnic groups as such or whatever.

Yep, linear is simply too simplistic.  Life is complex on many fronts.