The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.
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1.4-Million-Year-Old Human Face Is Oldest In Western Europeerectus, pending further analysis and categorization. Dr Rosa Huguet, who coordinated excavations at the site, told reporters that the discovery “introduces a new actor in the story of human evolution ...
Researchers also found additional relics like stone tools made from flint and quartz, as well as animal bones displaying cut ...
Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...
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Interesting Engineering on MSN1.4 million-year-old cheekbones of mysterious human relative rewrite historyThe Spanish team says the latest remains are more primitive than Homo antecessor but bear a resemblance to Homo erectus.
Martinón and her colleagues hypothesize that Pink may belong to one of the earliest human species to reach Western Europe.
A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...
"Our history is far richer and more complex than we imagined," said human evolutionary geneticist Aylwyn Scally.
Credit: Credit: Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA / Elena Santos / CENIEH Pink's face bears some similarities to the human ancestor Homo erectus, researchers said. That species spanned nearly 2 million ...
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Spanish fossils may represent unknown ancient human speciesScientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage - a discovery ...
Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...
An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for ...
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