More questions about Homo antecessor are yet to be answered

Comparing modern and ancient proteins in each of their sequences would answer quite a few lingering questions for researchers. Namely, they can now include Homo antecessor in the line-up of discovering deeper truths about them. Was this ancient group a sister species to the modern humans, or did they fit in somewhere else? Knowing the answer to this query would also bring a degree of clarity to the debate, which has long been rumbled since the 1994 discovery in Spain.

As previously mentioned, scientists have known for so long that chimpanzees and humans evolved from a common ancestor who split into two different species about nine to seven million years way back. Aside from that, they know so little about how these species developed as their modern selves and how many other primates and humans lived and perished in the process.