If Yunxian 2 belongs to H. longi, the data imply a common ancestor with H. sapiens around 1.32 million years ago, narrowing the gap between these lineages.
Denisovans are recast as closer relatives of H. longi and thus closer to H. sapiens than to Neanderthals, revising Asian human diversity maps.
A computer analysis identified H. longi, H. sapiens and Neandertal lineages by generating evolutionary trees that most simply and directly explained distributions of different skeletal traits.