Today I was reading The Age online and I read an article about the Red Deer Cave people. These people were a race that existed about 11,500 years ago, and their bone structure is not related to any other humans, living in the past or present. It is believed that this find could represent a new line of humans that existed in the past, but that did not contribute to any modern day humans. Their bones were discovered in Muladong, in the Yunnan province of China, by a team of Australian and Chinese university researchers and are now considered to be the youngest people discovered in the world, who do not look like modern humans.
I found this interesting because I have long had a theory that the world is so big, that there must be at least one small portion of earth, somewhere in the world, where nobody has ever stepped. It would be very difficult to determine this fact, and to prove that you were the first to step there, but I am certain this must be true. I have based this on the fact that there are vast places in the world which are still wild and unexplored. Also that you often read about new species of insects, plants or animals discovered each year. Now after the discovery of the Red Deer Cave people, I am starting to think on a bigger scale. What if there is a race of humans living somewhere in the world that look like us but that are of a different evolutionary line and we have just not encountered them. These are the questions that plague me! Seriously though, it would be amazing to think that somewhere in the world right now, maybe the hidden depths of the Amazon jungle (if we haven't already bulldozed that for notepads), there is a family of a similar human race eating a meal together. It would be pretty amazing, and not entirely impossible to believe.
If you are interested in reading the article about the Red Deer Cave people, check out The Age.
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