The ever unravelling history of homo

photo courtesy of EIA/Jordi Mestre

It turns out that the jawbone holding a few teeth found last year in a Spanish cave were actually once a part of the last common ancestor of Humans and Neanderthals - Pioneer Man.

Spanish researchers used three techniques to approximate the age of the fossil at 1.2 million years, a half-million years older than previously discovered humanlike fossils from the same region in the mountains of northern Spain.

Click here to read about the many colors in the homo rainbow.