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Homo antecessor (Latin "pioneer man") is an extinct species of archaic human recorded in the Spanish Sierra de Atapuerca, a productive archaeological site, from 1.2 to 0.8 million years ago during the Early Pleistocene.
A hominid that lived in Europe more than a million years ago might have given rise to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, some anthropologists say
The name Homo antecessor was announced in 1997 by JL Arsuaga. In 2007-2008 researchers working at Sima del Elefante, also in Atapuerca, recovered remains dating to about 1.2 million years ago. The human fossils included an isolated molar and a jaw bone with some front teeth (ATE9-1).
…them to a new species, H. antecessor, which they proposed as the ancestor of modern humans (H. sapiens) owing to certain distinctly modern facial features. Other researchers, however, hesitate to accept this assertion and group the fossils with similar remains classified as H. heidelbergensis .
At Gran Dolina, Spain, 11 young Homo antecessor individuals were butchered, and their brains apparently consumed, over a period of time about 800,000 years ago. Some experts, drawing parallels...
Comparison of Neanderthal and modern human DNA suggests that the two lineages diverged from a common ancestor, most likely Homo heidelbergensis, sometime between 350,000 and 400,000 years ago – with the European branch leading to H. neanderthalensis and the African branch (sometimes called Homo rhodesiensis) to H. sapiens.
Homo antecessor is an extinct hominin species whose fossil remains were initially discovered in 1994 at a cave site called Gran Dolina in the Sierra de Atapuerca of Spain and formally named in 1997.
The final part of the gallery explores how our species, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa, before dispersing around the world and becoming the only surviving species of human left today. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago.
Homo antecessor. Fossil remains found at Atapuerca, Spain, indicate Homo antecessor had an increased brain size (approximately 1,000 cc), a flattened face, a deep fossa between the nasal aperture and the zygomatic (cheek bone), and large canines and incisors.
Homo antecessor (brain size over 1,000 cc) possessed characteristics of both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens including the bulky brow and big jaw of Neanderthal and the cheekbones and nose of Homo sapiens.