Before the Emergence of Homo sapiens: Overview on the Early-to-Middle Pleistocene Fossil Record (with a Proposal about Homo heidelbergensis at the subspecific level)

The origin of H. sapiens has deep roots, which include two crucial nodes: (1) the emergence and diffusion of the last common ancestor of later Homo (in the Early Pleistocene) and (2) the tempo and mode of the appearance of distinct evolutionary lineages (in the Middle Pleistocene). The window betwee...

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Main Author: Manzi, Giorgio
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119516/