With only DNA evidence to go by, the researchers have said it is impossible to tell what the species would have looked like. And although they could not determine the sex of the individual to whom the finger belonged, the researchers have nicknamed the prehistoric person “X-woman”…
Professor Paabo said the x-woman type of human would have developed much later than Homo erectus but long before Neanderthals. Modern humans shared a common ancestor with the unknown hominin about a million years ago, he said.
The X-woman humans seem to have lived alongside Neanderthals and modern humans.