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Atelier Daynes : Art, science and technology aimed at serving museography, prehistory, anthropology. Reconstruction of fossil hominids and humans,australopithecus, erectus, neanderthal, sapiens

One of the most complete early human skulls yet found suggests that what scientists thought were three hominin species may in fact be one. This controversial claim comes from a comparison between the anatomical features of a 1.8-million-year-old fossil skull with those of four other skulls from the same excavation site at Dmanisi, Georgia. The wide variability in their features suggests that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus, the species so far identified as existing worldwide in that era, might represent a single species.