Neanderthal Ancestors in Spain Point to “Game of Thrones” Era of Human Prehistory
22nd June 2014
Arsuaga and his colleagues think the fossils show that the Neanderthal lineage did not get all its distinctive anatomical features as a complete set, but rather, these appeared individually in “a mosaic pattern of evolution, with different anatomical and functional modules evolving at different rates,” in the words of the Science paper.