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All prehistoric skeletal remains of humans that are archeologically earlier than the Neolithic (necessarily an imprecise limit), regardless of degree...
The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Area is located northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. This world heritage locale encompasses 47,000...
The earliest representatives of people anatomically similar to living humans evolved from more archaic humans approximately 100,000 years ago. The...
Homo heidelbergensis is a species of extinct humans that lived in Europe and possibly also in Africa and Asia...


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Figure 1.Two views of the Petralona cranium from Greece: (a) front view, (b) side view. The Petralona cranium is likely similar to what the Mauer cranium would have looked like. (Photographs courtesy of Eric Delson)
From update 'Homo heidelbergensis'
Figure 2.Alternative evolutionary scenarios (a–c) for H. heidelbergensis as discussed in the text. Time, in million years ago (Ma), is indicated on the left side of each panel. The horizontal dotted lines signify the beginning and the end of the Middle Pleistocene. (Adapted from J.-J. Hublin, The origin of the Neandertals, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 106:16022–16027, 2009)
From update 'Homo heidelbergensis'
The Malapa hominin skeleton 1 (MH1). (Reproduced from L. R. Berger et al., Australopithecus sediba: A new species of Homo-like australopith from South Africa, Science, 328:195–204, 2010)
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