The stem species of our species: a place for the archaic human cranium from Ceprano, Italy.

One of the present challenges in the study of human evolution is to recognize the hominin taxon that was ancestral to Homo sapiens. Some researchers regard H. heidelbergensis as the stem species involved in the evolutionary divergence leading to the emergence of H. sapiens in Africa, and to the evol...

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Main Authors: Aurélien Mounier, Silvana Condemi, Giorgio Manzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3080388?pdf=render