Finding relatives in hominin skulls

Casts made from prehistoric skulls of human ancestors on display.

Have you ever wondered about our distant ancestors? Here we can examine some skulls to see which ones might be more closely related to us, modern humans. There is still some debate about which hominin ancestors are most closely related to us. Click for the experiment.

 

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