The assignment of Engis 2 to " Homo neanderthalensis " and Engis 1 to " Homo sapiens " was primarily based on anatomical and chronological comparisons as Engis 2 was recovered in the context of Neanderthal Mousterian artefacts.
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However, in 1864 William King, professor of geology at Queens College in Galway, Ireland, presented a paper where he argued the Neanderthal fossils belonged to an extinct species of early human that he named " Homo neanderthalensis ".
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And just a few years ago, in 1999, scientists in Portugal found the 25, 000-year-old skeleton of a boy who seemed to have been a hybrid, the offspring of Homo sapiens ( modern humans ) and Homo neanderthalensis.
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The cranial features on the bone seem to be intermediate between those found on " Homo erectus " and those of later species, such as " Homo heidelbergensis ", that dominated Europe long before " Homo neanderthalensis ".
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Even Thomas Henry Huxley, a supporter of Forbes limestone Quarry in Gibraltar was recognized only decades later to be tens of thousands of years old and firmly established as to be a representative of the genus Homo Neanderthalensis.
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There has been a gradual increase in brain volume as humans progressed along the timeline of evolution ( see Homininae ), starting from about 600 cm 3 in " Homo habilis " up to 1500 cm 3 in " Homo neanderthalensis ".
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*The eighteen identified species are : Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus kadabba, Ardipithecus ramidus, Australopithecus anamensis, Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus garhi, Australopithecus sediba, Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus aethiopicus, Paranthropus boisei, Paranthropus robustus, Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo floresiensis.
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"Homo rhodesiensis ", who were descended from " H . ergaster ", migrated from Africa to Europe and became " Homo heidelbergensis " and later ( about 250, 000 years ago ) " Homo neanderthalensis " and the Denisova hominin in Asia.
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Contextual fossils and the nature of the tools found lead to the conclusion that the earliest two settlement periods must be attributed to " Homo neanderthalensis ", who is gradually less present at the site during the Chatelperronian and fully disappears during the Aurignacian.
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Everybody loves a chance to name something . . . : ) But the difference to " Homo neanderthalensis ", nominally a whole different species, isn't that great, and there are differing degrees of admixture of this species in contemporary populations for that matter.
