This Faces of Human Ancestors

Once upon a time, the human species first appeared in Africa and then spread to all corners of the Earth. In distribution, the evolution took place adapts to housing and lifestyle.

There are a variety of fossils of human ancestors discovered ancient human alias. However, many inventions was accompanied by a picture of an actual ancient human faces. As a result, people today have a hard time imagining ancestors.

An exhibition in Dresden, Germany, recently tried early human faces presents a more realistic. Scientists are involved using a computer digitizing technique to describe the 27 faces were reconstructed based on ancient human fossils.

One depicted is Sahelanthropus tchadensis. The species is the most ancient human species, lived 7 million years ago, before humans and chimpanzees are genetically separated based on the theory of evolution.

The other species is Homo rudolfensis who lived 2 million years ago. Based on the reconstruction, this species has a wide jaw, nose, eyes relatively small, and a small forehead.

Not to forget also Homo erectus that lived 1 million years ago. One theory is that this species originated in Africa and migrated to India, China, and Java. Another theory states that this species originated in Asia and moved to Africa.

There is also Homo neanderthalensis thought the closest living relatives of Homo sapiens, modern man. This species lived about 60,000 years ago. Some studies reveal that modern humans ever mate with this species.

There are many versions about the origin of humans. The theory of "Out of Africa" ​​is the most powerful, but many are unmatchable. This exhibition seeks to introduce the excavation site in Africa and research archaeologists with more interesting ways.