Oldest Human Fossil in Western Europe Found in Spain

Popular Archaeology ^ | Sat, Aug 03, 2013 | Journal of Human Evolution

[SunkenCiv]

A model of the face of an adult female Homo erectus, one of the first truly human ancestors of modern man, on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Reconstruction by John Gurche; photographed by Tim Evanson. Wikimedia Commons

[SunkenCiv]

[COBOL2Java]

Unfortunately, we’ll never know if that was Helen Thomas’ first husband.

[Vermont Lt]

Guilty.

[fish hawk]

Bull crap. You really believe this junk? I’d like to sell you a bridge in NY state.

[SunkenCiv]

And I’d like it if there were no loudmouthed trolls on the Internet, but we don’t always get what we want.

[SunkenCiv]

Well, she is a little severe looking, but it was dark in the cave.

[onedoug]

Interesting find.

[taildragger]

And their still absentee voting more than once in Chicago.....

[James C. Bennett]

But, according to scientists, it was not likely that Y-chromosome Adam and Mitochondrial Eve lived within the same generation, nor were they the only man and woman alive at the time or the only people to have present-day descendants. They simply had DNA portions that, because of their unchanging nature, made them more detectable and traceable, while the same sequences of others have become extinct because of natural selection and genetic "drift" (change in the frequency of a gene variant in a population due to random sampling).

Details of the studies have been published in the August 2, 2013 issue of the scientific journal Science, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Cool!

[Revolting cat!]

[blueunicorn6]

Looks like Cher. Almost as old as her.

[hal ogen]

Was mclame in europe recently?????

[null and void]

Not if you could turn back time...

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Generalissimo Francisco Franco?

[Grimmy]

Any hints on what the sea levels were at the time the discoveries date to? And the weather type conditions of north Africa?

Seems to me that if north Africa was as is often portrayed in much of the ancient art on rock walls/caves and such in that area (wetter, grass plains, forest) and the sea levels were low enough...

Expansion into Europe via what’s now known as the Straight of Gibraltar might have been easier/shorter than the paths through what’s now the Mid East and into eastern Europe.

[Slyfox]

Hillary is in Spain?

[SunkenCiv]

Good reminder, it’s only an eight mile gap — I think we’ve got a topic somewhere in the FRchives...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1559199/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1885298/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1006058/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1892199/posts

http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/arheo/ska/tekstovi/out_of_africa.pdf
http://www.pnas.org/content/102/24/8431.long
http://blog.23andme.com/ancestry/across-the-pillars-of-hercules-recent-study-confirms-prehistoric-connection-between-iberia-and-north-africa/
http://www.academia.edu/2476381/Sea-crossings_capacities_and_opportunities_during_prehistory_Survey_and_comparison_between_Homo_species_Hombert_J.M._and_Coupe_C._

[SunkenCiv]

:’D

[COBOL2Java]

Heh! And don’t forget, beer hadn’t yet been invented!