NEANDERTALS ARE US Newly recovered DNA suggests that
hominid fossils previously found in a Spanish cave come from Neandertals who lived around 430,000 years ago.
Not exact matches
Thousands of
hominid fossils up to 800,000 years old had been
previously found there, including some bearing cut marks indicative of cannibalism.
New age estimates for
previously discovered
fossils position Graecopithecus as potentially the earliest known
hominid, the investigators suggest.
University of Arkansas anthropologist Mike Plavcan recently reexamined
fossils of one of our earliest bipedal ancestors, the 4 million - year - old Australopithecus afarensis, and found
hominids may not have been as marriage minded as
previously thought.
Homo floresiensis
fossils revealed the tiny
hominid didn't evolve from Homo erectus, as
previously believed.