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Article: SCIENTISTS THINK FOSSILS ARE OF NEW HUMAN ANCESTOR.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 30, 1997
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Byline: John Noble Wilford The New York Times
Spanish paleontologists say 800,000-year-old fossils they found in a limestone cave represent an entirely new species of human ancestor - and could be the last common ancestor of modern humans and their extinct cousins, the Neanderthals.
Other scientists are not so sure. They agree that the fossils, whatever their species, are remains of the earliest-known Europeans. As such, the fossils are critical to an understanding of how Europe was first settled by hominids, the family of all human species, living and extinct.
But those scientists expressed serious reservations about assigning the Spanish ...
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