2025-09-26
33 分钟Today we bring you analysis of an ancient skull found in China suggesting the tantalising possibility that ancestor X,
so that's the shared ancestor of us, Homo sapiens, the Denisovans and then Neanderthals.
The common ancestor of those did not live in Africa,
but instead somewhere in Western Asia, maybe in the Middle East.
Yep, this could upend that whole traditional out of Africa narrative.
It would mean that key stages of our evolution occurred in Asia and then returned to Africa and then later emerged out of Africa again 60,000 years ago rather than us doing all of our evolution in Africa.
Huge if true.
Huge.
Who are getting into that today?
Also on the show we hear from medical experts on the misleading claims made by President Trump about paracetamol and autism and we have the news that we have finally discovered cosmic wind coming from the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
Finally!
Yeah, and wind can get out of a black hole, it's not,
light can't escape, but we're going to get it, we'll explain that.
Yeah, that's coming up.
I'm Dr Penny Sarshe.
I'm Dr Roan Hooper.
Welcome to the world, the universe and us.
So we're going to start with this intriguing skull found in China.
The claim is that this skull pushes back the origin of our species by 400,000 years.
And that's a really long time when we're talking about human evolutionary history.