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class=”text”> A skull of 1.8 million years questions the history of human evolution. (AP)

skull 1.8 million years discovered in Georgia in 2005 suggests that early hominids that populated the planet could belong to different species not, but to one , according to research published Today Science .

class=”imp”> The differences between the fossils found might have been “misleading” scientists A group of scientists have been analyzing the skull for eight years and have made a discovery that According to them, can rewrite the evolutionary history of humans. The so-called ‘skull 5′ is “the most comprehensive” of ancient Homo found in the world, according to lead study author David Lordkipanidze, researcher at the National Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi.

“We are not against the idea that there could have been more than one species sometime about 2 million years “, said Christoph Zollikofer, Institute and Museum of Anthropology in Switzerland and who helped analyze the skull. “But we just say that we do not have enough evidence fossil,” he said.

study ‘skull 5′ and four other hominid remains found in the same area in Dmanisi, Georgia, has suggested to these researchers recognized as fossils from different species such as Homo habilis and Homo erectus could be really variations of the same species .

Early hominids

look different from each other, like humans, and differences between the fossils found may have led n “misleading” scientists to make them think they belong to different species, according to these researchers.

Dmanisi hominids “are so similar,” to the fossils found in Africa that “we can assume that both represent the same species,” argued Zollikofer.