Homo heidelbergensis—one of five sculptures ... Gurche sculpted a female, Potts explains, because the most complete skull for Gurche to study was female. Also, “we wanted to contest the ...

This skull belonged to a Neanderthal female and was found at ... The Sima skeletons were previously claimed to represent Homo heidelbergensis and be about 600,000 years old. However, they are now ...

Also known as Homo heidelbergensis, this species has a brain that was larger than H. erectus' and smaller than that of a modern human. The brain was enclosed in a skull that was more rounded than H.