Ancient Skull Sparks Debate: Hybrid of Modern Human and Neanderthal?
A skull pulled from deep time can still jolt the present. Curators whisper about its mix of features; researchers argue over what, exactly, those features mean. Is this the face of an encounter between modern humans and Neanderthals, or just the tricky overlap of traits we’ve long learned to expect in the Pleistocene? The mystery ...
