3D Virtual Fossil Reveals Our Last Common Ancestor With Neanderthals

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The "virtual fossil" of the last common ancestor between the two species. Dr. Aurélien Mounier

At some point during the Pleistocene epoch, 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, the common ancestor between humans and Neanderthals walked the Earth. Although we have no decent, fossilized remains of this creature, researchers from the University of Cambridge have circumvented this problem by using novel algorithms to simulate what its skull would have looked like.