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Homo antecessor Had Surprisingly Modern Skull, New Fossils Suggest

An artist’s rendering of a Homo antecessor individual known as the Girl of Gran Dolina. Image credit: Tom BjΓΆrklund.

A new analysis of three skull fragments unearthed at the Gran Dolina cave site in Spain indicates that Homo antecessor had bone thickness closer to that of Neanderthals and modern people than to more archaic hominins.

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224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins

A Homo heidelbergensis, a Neanderthal and a Cro-Magnon. Image credit: SINC / JosΓ© Antonio PeΓ±as.

A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.

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