![]() The massive skull could hold a brain comparable in size to modern humans' but had larger, almost square eye sockets, thick brow ridges, a wide mouth, and oversized teeth. The cranium was reportedly discovered in the 1930s in Harbin City of the Heilongjiang province of China. ![]() "This fossil preserved many morphological details that are critical for understanding the evolution of the Homo genus and the origin of Homo sapiens." "The Harbin fossil is one of the most complete human cranial fossils in the world," says author Qiang Ji, a professor of paleontology of Hebei GEO University.
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