Ceprano Man
Italo Biddittu
A highway construction project accidentally unearthed a single skull cap on March 13, 1994. It lay in the Province of Frosinone in Italy.
Photo: Aurélien Mounier1, Silvana Condemi1, Giorgio Manzi2,3* (CC BY 2.5)
Walking upright came long before big brains. Hominins appeared in Africa roughly seven to six million years ago. Their family tree held many genera such as the australopithecines before the genus Homo. Our own species is about 300,000 years old and is the only survivor.
A few cards of the album
The start of their anecdote. The album's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Penghu 1
Mark McMenamin
Fishermen brought up this jaw from the bottom of the Penghu Channel before 2008. It lay 60 to 120 m below the surface and about 25 km off the western coast of Taiwan. That area was once part of the mainland. A Tainan citizen named Kun-Yu Tsai acquired it.
Photo: TaichungJohnny (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Australopithecus deyiremeda
Yohannes Haile-Selassie & et al.
Three partial jawbones are all we know of this early human relative. So it is unclear whether it is a species of its own or belongs to a better-known one.
Photo: A. C. Tatarinov (CC0)
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