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Exactly when and how it happened is unclear. The oldest Neanderthal fossils in hand date only to 200,000 B.P., and the oldest Homo sapiens to about 100,000. But some recent discoveries may help answer those questions. A 1 million-year-old cranium from Buia, Eritrea, for example, has characteristics of both H. erectus and H. sapiens. And what Asfaw and his colleagues call a "spectacular" partial cranium of the same age from Ethiopia should help as well when it's formally unveiled...
...Mary's 1959 discovery of the Zinjanthropus cranium at Olduvai that captured worldwide attention and made the Leakeys a household name. Building on this find, Louis and Mary attracted a multidisciplinary team of specialists to work at Olduvai and launched the modern science of paleoanthropology, the study of human origins...
...established a pattern of dribbling towards the endline and darting right-footed crosses in front of the mouth of the goal. One of the Crimson's best opportunities came off a Stauffer corner, as she lofted a jump ball from the left corner that landed on the eager cranium of fellow co-captain Devon Bingham, who one-timed a shot that was saved in front of the right corner of the goal...
However, after six years at Sidwell, I had the populace trained. People knew to keep their grubby little fingers away from my cranium. I had seen the foul bathroom hygiene (or lack thereof), and did not want unclean appendages all up in my space...
Black focuses his attention exclusively on Schuler's exposed brain and the voracious tumor that threatens it. An hour and a half earlier, he had drilled a series of holes into Schuler's cranium, then connected the dots with a surgical jigsaw. He had lifted out an oval-shaped piece of skull, then cut through and peeled back the dura mater, a thick membrane that protects the brain and spinal cord...