Extensive discussion of the Spanish area's three archaeological sites, including fossils of Homo antecessor and Homo heidelbergensis. Features photo albums, discussion of stone toolmaking, VRML models of skull reconstructions, and a discussion of how H. antecessor forced a revision of the Homo family tree.
Phylogeny, morphology and life history.
Covers the hominid fossil record from Australia, East Asia and South-East Asia, including archaic and modern Homo sapiens and Homo erectus. Also includes a PDF field guide to the human skeleton, and downloadable data files of anthropometric data on various historical and modern Asian and Australian collections.
Radio report about a research team's discovery, in a Pleistocene cave site in Atapuerca, Spain, of a new species of hominid (Homo antecessor) that may be the common ancestor of both modern humans and Neanderthals.
Science /
Biology /
Evolution /
Human
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