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section on La Brea woman, a 9000 year old specimen and the only human remains ever discovered in the La Brea tarpits in los angeles, california.

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 16:37, 31 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Some age assertions

Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I'm no expert buy in reaction to an appearance on my watchlist I just made this edit to another article where the age of Homo luzonensis is asserted to be 134,000 years, citing a 2023 study. I see that the Homo luzonensis article agrees with this. This article puts it at about 50,000 years. I took a quick look at the article cited and it looks to me as if info inthere may impact other fossils, but someone who knows more about this stuff than I should fix this stuff if it needs fixing. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:39, 26 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Change the image at the top of the page

Latest comment: 10 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

It shows a T Rex fossil, which isn't related to human evolution. Oo Uui (talk) 15:19, 6 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Pay a bit more attention to the elements of the page. The image in question is part of Template:Paleontology, not part of this article. The same image will be displayed in whatever page uses the template. Dimadick (talk) 15:31, 6 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Dimadick Oh ok Oo Uui (talk) 15:32, 6 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

Starting list of specimens to be added

Latest comment: 12 days ago4 comments3 people in discussion

Yunxian and Thomas Quarry are big ones

Any more that haven't been given entries? ~2026-55393-17 (talk) 17:18, 14 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

P capensis- SK 15 ~2026-55548-27 (talk) 14:58, 15 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Gombore II ~2026-55784-29 (talk) 05:14, 18 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

DAN5 and KNN-OL 45500 ~2026-55784-29 (talk) 05:32, 18 October 2026 (UTC)Reply