new aunt/uncle - A. deyiremeda

But when one of your populations consists of three partial jaws, the question is whether it is in a fact a distinct population, and we haven't just improved our sample of the variation in one existing population. There are plenty of low frequency traits in modern humans. When the squid people discover one of these for the first time millions of years in the future, clustered together as heritable traits tend to be, it would be rash for them to declare a new species of modern human.

Large for a hominin species, but not really that large in an absolute sense. I tried to find some more specific numbers, but that proved a lot harder to do than I expected.Anyway, as we (or, at least, I) don't have a subscription to Nature, so don't actually know how different these fossils are from Australopithecus afarensis, I guess we can leave it to the experts to argue over for now, as you suggest!Edited by caffeine, : No reason given.