Hominin Skulls From Sima De Los Huesos #2 is a photograph by Javier Trueba/msf which was uploaded on July 12th, 2016.
Hominin Skulls From Sima De Los Huesos #2
Hominin skulls. Palaeontologist examining hominin fossils from the Sima de los Huesos (Pit of Bones) site, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. Thousand of... more
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Hominin Skulls From Sima De Los Huesos #2
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Javier Trueba/msf
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Hominin skulls. Palaeontologist examining hominin fossils from the Sima de los Huesos (Pit of Bones) site, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain. Thousand of bones and bone fragments, from at least 28 individuals, have been excavated from the site since its discovery in 1984. Skulls from the site, which date to the middle Pleistocene around 430,000 years ago, exhibit a mixture of Neanderthal and more primitive features. The jaw and facial bones are Neanderthal-like, while the cranium is primitive. This suggests that characteristic Neanderthal features evolved separately from each other, an evolutionary model known as the accretion model.
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July 12th, 2016
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