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Fossil face discovery highlights challenges faced by Europe’s earliest settlers

The Conversation 19 Mar 2025
Known as ATE7-1, the new fossil consists of a partial face belonging to an ancient hominin, a biological classification that includes living humans and our closest extinct relatives, such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.
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Mysterious Human Ancestors Gave Us 20% of Our Genes that Boosted Our Brain Function

Greek Reporter 19 Mar 2025
When Asian Homo erectus came back to Africa as Homo sapiens they interbred with the relic African Homo erectus populations ... Although researchers believe early species such as Homo erectus and Homo ...
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Scientists discover a 'hidden chapter' in human evolution - and it suggests our history is ...

The Daily Mail 18 Mar 2025
The study authors do not know the identity of the ancient species that make up the A and B groups, although fossil evidence suggests that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived both in Africa and other regions during this period.
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Human Presence in Europe Dates Back 1.4 Million Years, Stone Tools Reveal

Greek Reporter 18 Mar 2025
Homo erectus might have crafted stone tools. Researchers speculate Homo erectus could have likely crafted the stone tools. Homo erectus, known for being the first species to walk upright and adept at ...
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Humans Descended From At Least Two Ancestral Populations That Split Then Reconnected

IFL Science 18 Mar 2025
The question remains, who were these two ancient populations? Fossilized remains show that species like Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived during this crucial time, positioning them as the potential ancestors of modern populations.
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Opinion: Looking for happier news? Turn to science

Lawrence Journal World 18 Mar 2025
Maybe you’re getting a little stressed out ... Who could blame you? ... The partial face found at the Sima del Elefante site is believed to be of a Homo erectus, the researchers say, which has never before been definitively found in Europe ... ....
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Western Europe's oldest human face discovered in Spain

Phys Dot Org 16 Mar 2025
Furthermore, we believe that in Pink the nose area was flattened and sunken, similar to that of the species Homo erectus and other non-human primates ... Pink as "Homo affinis erectus" (abbreviated as H.
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Fragments of million-year-old face found in Spain shed new light on ancient human migrations

Alternet 16 Mar 2025
However, it does share some similarities with Homo erectus, the first human species to spread from Africa to Asia, beginning around 2 million years ago, and now also found in Western Europe ... For now, we are classifying it as Homo aff.
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Tools made from elephant and hippo bones show ingenuity of human ancestors

CyprusMail 15 Mar 2025
The 27 tools, discovered at a rich paleoanthropological site called Olduvai Gorge, were probably created by Homo erectus, an early human species with body proportions similar to our species Homo sapiens, according to the researchers.
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Cave Discovery Uncovers Unknown Human Population in Europe

Greek Reporter 14 Mar 2025
Homo erectus skull to which the unknow species, H ... The discovery, detailed in a study published in Nature, suggests that Homo erectus, rather than Homo antecessor, may have been the first human ancestor to reach Western Europe.
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Unveiling Europe's earliest face: Spanish researchers reconstruct features of ancient hominid

Spanish News Today 14 Mar 2025
erectus, a more primitive species than Homo antecessor ... These bones do not show features found in Homo antecessor fossils, and they resemble the Homo erectus lineage ... Homo aff. erectus and later Homo antecessor.
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5 of the oldest human fossils ever found and the fascinating stories behind them

The Times of India 14 Mar 2025
These skulls belong to Homo erectus, but they are much smaller than typical Homo erectus fossils, leading scientists to classify them as a subspecies known as Homo erectus georgicus.
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Oldest human FACE is discovered: Ancient man nicknamed 'Pink' lived in Spain up to 1.4 ...

The Daily Mail 13 Mar 2025
Instead, he resembles Homo erectus, a far more ancient human species which emerged in Africa two million years ago and was the first to walk on two legs like a modern human ... It was previously thought Homo erectus disappeared some 400,000 years ago.
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Spanish fossils may represent unknown ancient human species

The Daily Herald - St Maarten 13 Mar 2025
They assigned the fossil the provisional name Homo affinis erectus in recognition of its affinities to certain Homo erectus traits.
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1.4-million-year-old fossils may belong to unknown human ancestor

The News International 13 Mar 2025
... but also differences from Homo erectus, which was the first human species to migrate out of Africa. The team assigned the provisional name Homo affinis erectus to acknowledge its links to Homo erectus.
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