The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...
Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...
He is reconstructed from a male Homo sapiens skeleton from Paviland in Wales (the famous 'Red Lady' who wasn't a lady) and, since that is a partial skeleton lacking a skull, a roughly ... to create ...
Skulls: - Left: Amud 1, Neanderthal, 55.000 years ago, ~1750 cm³ - Middle: Cro Magnon, Homo sapiens, 32.000 years ago, ~1570 cm³ - Right: Atapuerca 5, Middle ...
Homo sapiens sapiens. The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull ...
A study published today in the journal Nature reveals that the skull, which was originally discovered in Greece in the 1970s, belonged to a member of an early population of Homo sapiens and is ...