it was a troika of human species which inhabited the expanse of earth, together, as recently as 30,000 years ago. New research findings suggest that Homo sapiens, Homo erectus and Neanderthals did not occupy different rungs of the ladder of evolution as was believed; instead, they could have coexisted.

Led by Carl Swisher iii of the Berkeley Geochronology Centre in California, the us-Canadian-Indonesian team of palaeontologists went back to fossil sites along the Solo river in Java including Sambungmacan and Ngandong to search for an answer to the enigma that has long foxed anthropologists: where and how did the human being evolve? Results indicate that an early human relative