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1.8m-year-old skull suggests early man was single species

Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 17:57

A well-preserved adult male skull, dating back to 1.8 million years ago, suggests that early man was a single species with individuals that could look quite different from each other.

Early human skull reveals signs of inbreeding

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 13:17

Skull pieces of an early human buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China exhibit a now-rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding.