Skull Morphology Featured In The Study (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Skull Morphology Featured In The Study

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Top: Modern human skull from 19th century South Africa. Now part of the Duckworth Collection at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge. Middle: 'Virtual fossil' of Last Common Ancestor Bottom: Neanderthal skull found in La Ferrassie, France, and dating from 53 to 66 thousand years ago. Now curated in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris.

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Dr. Aurélien Mounier

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