The Roman Head from Mexico

[Robert Vermaat]

Greeting,
surely the difference can be told between the skull of a Neanderthal and Cro Magnon....unless a lot of it was missing?

Indeed, the bone ridges aross the eyes, the totally different jaw, telling signs.

Neanderthal man was not related to Cro Magnon or Homo Sapiens, they were a different species of man

Ah.. technically, not quite correct.

Cro Magnon belongs to the Homo sapiens species, who had the same ancestors as the Homo neandethalensis species. So yes, they were related. For more about our family tree: look here.

What little I remember of human and proto-human remains is that HOMO SAPIENS is not 300000 (five zeros) old. For HOMO SAPIENS I would take a zero off so the dating of caption dating sounds reasonable. Indeed even the neanderthal are not 300000 years old (five zeros). What maybe the eminent scientists said is that the species is in the homo lineage and not a cousin species like the neanderthal. To me what seems to be the mystery is that the datings differ a factor ten.

I've read that the Homo sapiens species is older than the Homo neanderthalensis. Peopleoften think the latter is the older one. Also, the Homo Sapiens species is a collection of several skull types, and Cro magnon is not a scientific name for the whole species but just for the type found in France. As such, the oldest fossil evidence for anatomically modern humans (homo sapiens) is about 130,000 years old in Africa. The ancestor of both Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis, Homo heidelbergensis, dates back to 800.000 BP.