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Twentieth anniversary of Homo antecessor (1997‐2017): a review
Author(s) -
Bermúdez de Castro José María,
MartinónTorres María,
Arsuaga Juan Luis,
Carbonell Eudald
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
evolutionary anthropology: issues, news, and reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.401
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1520-6505
pISSN - 1060-1538
DOI - 10.1002/evan.21540
Subject(s) - phylogenetic tree , pleistocene , most recent common ancestor , ancestor , evolutionary biology , geography , hominidae , interpretation (philosophy) , early pleistocene , morphology (biology) , paleoanthropology , paleontology , archaeology , genealogy , zoology , biology , history , biological evolution , philosophy , biochemistry , linguistics , genetics , gene
It has been twenty years since diagnosis and publication of the species Homo antecessor . 1 Since then, new human fossils recovered from the TD6 level of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain) have helped to refine its taxonomic and phylogenetic position. In this paper, we present a synthesis of the most characteristic features of this species, as well as our interpretation derived from the latest investigations. We focus on the phylogenetic interpretation of Homo antecessor, taking into account the most recent paleogenetic analyses and a reassessment of the European Middle Pleistocene hominin record. We try to show that, twenty years after its publication, H. antecessor provides a good opportunity to address the morphology of the last common ancestor of Neandertals and modern humans.