Homo antecessor - Wikipedia
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.
Mysterious human ancestor finds its place in our family tree
Apr 1, 2020 · Homo antecessor's facial features, as seen in this reconstruction of a boy who lived 800,000 years ago in Gran Dolina, Spain, have long puzzled anthropologists. Javier Trueba/MSF/Science Source. When it comes to deciphering our ancient family tree, DNA from fossils is the new gold standard.
Homo antecessor: Common Ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals?
Nov 26, 2012 · A hominid that lived in Europe more than a million years ago might have given rise to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, some anthropologists say
Homo antecessor - The Australian Museum
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 …
Homo antecessor | extinct hominin | Britannica
…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 .
Homo heidelbergensis - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
Jan 3, 2024 · 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.
The dental proteome of Homo antecessor | Nature
Apr 1, 2020 · Analyses of the proteomes of dental enamel from Homo antecessor and Homo erectus demonstrate that the Early Pleistocene H. antecessor is a close sister lineage of later Homo sapiens,...
The first hominin of Europe | Nature
Mar 27, 2008 · All of them have yielded hominin fossils attributed to the species Homo antecessor (approximately 0.8 Myr 9,10,11,12,13) in Gran Dolina and Homo heidelbergensis in Galería 14 and Sima de los ...
The origin of our species - Natural History Museum
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 | eFossils Resources
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.