Homo antecessor y su relación con los neandertales y las poblaciones humanas modernas

  1. Bermúdez de Castro, José María 1
  2. Martinón-Torres, María 2
  1. 1 University College London, España
  2. 2 Universidad de Burgos, España
Journal:
Isurus

ISSN: 1888-9441

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 8

Pages: 28-41

Type: Article

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Abstract

This report examines the morphological evidences of the human fossils recovered from the TD6-2 level of the Gran Dolina cave site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, northern Spain). These fossils, which were included in the species Homo antecessor and might have been deposited during the MIS 21, exhibit plesiomorphic features for the Homo clade, apomorphic features shared with H. sapiens, apomorphic features shared with H. neanderthalensis, apomorphic features shared with the two latter species, and apomorphic features shared with the Eurasian Middle Pleistocene populations. This complex mosaic, which has a distinctly European hallmark, could be explained in the framework of a cladogenetic process occurred during the early Pleistocene, probably in Southwest Asia. The polymorphic population originated in this process might have been source of different migratory waves, at least towards Europe, during favourable climatic conditions. This process could have been very complex concerning the interactions of the “mother population” with other human groups and must consider at least one migration to the African continent through the Levantine Corridor. Only this way we could justify the origin and evolution of H. sapiens in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene.

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