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All the secrets of 'Homo antecessor', our great-grandfather of 850,000 years ago: "He is enigmatic and diabolical, a very strange mixture"

11/1/2023, 3:03:03 AM

Highlights: All the secrets of 'Homo antecessor', our great-grandfather of 850,000 years ago. "He is enigmatic and diabolical, a very strange mixture". July 8, 1994 was a great day for Spanish science. During that day of excavation in Atapuerca, the first two teeth of a.... Human Evolution. "I still do not rule out that it is the common ancestor of'sapiens' and Neanderthals" "I don't think we'll ever find out the truth"

July 8, 1994 was a great day for Spanish science. During that day of excavation in Atapuerca, the first two teeth of a...


Human Evolution

All the secrets of 'Homo antecessor', our great-grandfather of 850,000 years ago: "He is enigmatic and diabolical, a very strange mixture"

As they finalize their retirement, the co-directors of Atapuerca José María Bermúdez de Castro and Eudald Carbonell dedicate a book to the cannibalistic 'human' species they found in Burgos three decades ago: "I still do not rule out that it is the common ancestor of 'sapiens' and Neanderthals"

Bermúdez de Castro shows a replica of the jaw of 'the girl from the Gran Dolina'. ANGEL NAVARRETE