The scientists called the site Cro-Magnon 1, a name which stuck with these early Homo sapiens until recent years. Cro-Magnons ...

referred to by some scientists as a Cro-Magnon, who was part of the Gravettian prehistoric culture of Europe. He is reconstructed from a male Homo sapiens skeleton from Paviland in Wales (the famous ...

The genetic sequences were from a man and a woman whose remains were found at a rock shelter near the southern coastal town ...

Both dating issues and fossil anatomy mean that scientists are currently uncertain whether the last common ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans was Homo heidelbergensis ... examples being the ...

The early modern skull and jawbone (above, at right) come from Cro-Magnon I, one of several individuals whose remains turned up in a rockshelter in the Dordogne in 1868. The Neanderthal is 47,000 ...

The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H. erectus'. Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens have been found in Africa and Europe. Averaging five and a half feet in height and ...

Contemporary fiction is fascinated by Deep Time, a time before humanity and therefore before history, as it seeks to imagine ...