This is from the Atapuercan site in Spain. I am unconvinced as yet that a
new species is required. The fossils do appear to be intermediate between
sapiens and Neanderthals and de Castro and Rosas are arguing that these
people are the common ancestor between sapiens and Neanderthal. In
principle I don't have a problem with accepting their view because I think
that all three were human in a spiritual sense.
As to their nearness to the Mediterranean, antecessor is far too late in
chronology to be the rag-tag surviors of the flood I proposed which was much
earlier in time. The current earliest member of our geneus Homo is around
2.33 MYR ago. I would ten to believe that a small population of Homo lived
long prior to that time and the population only grew big enough to have a
chance at fossilization by the 2.33 myr time. (see my web page or A^3 book
for more details.)
glenn
Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
and
Foundation, Fall and Flood
http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm