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The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago could help answer some of the great questions of human evolution, finds James Woodford FOSSILS nearly three-quarters of a million years old, discovered in North Africa, may belong to a common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern humans that lived shortly before the three hominin lineages split. Jean-Jacques Hublin at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues analysed several fossils found in a cave called Grotte à Hominidés on the outskirts of Casablanca, Morocco, including two adult jawbones, a child’s jawbone and several vertebrae. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第3578期 · 2026年1月17日,James Woodford。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。