Homo sapiens
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Atapuerca: Crossroads of Human Evolution in Europe
California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118, San FranciscoIn this talk María Martinón-Torres will discuss her work tracing the origins of our closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals. She will also share how fossils of Homo antecessor, an early human species, found at Atapuerca have shifted our understanding of the ancestry of the first Europeans.
Atapuerca: Crossroads of Human Evolution in Europe
California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Dr 94118, San FranciscoIn this talk María Martinón-Torres will discuss her work tracing the origins of our closest extinct relatives, the Neanderthals. She will also share how fossils of Homo antecessor, an early human species, found at Atapuerca have shifted our understanding of the ancestry of the first Europeans.
Rewriting Modern Human Origins: Insights from New Discovery in Morocco
The Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive, HoustonIn this talk Dr. Shara Bailey will discuss her work on the newly discovered 300,000 year old Homo sapiens fossils in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. The fossils show that by about 300,000 years ago, important changes in our biology and behavior and are reshaping our understanding of how we evolved.