The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago.
These are skull casts from human evolution. Left to right: Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!
The skull, which they found in South Africa, is of the species Paranthropus robustus, a cousin species to our predecessors, ...