The magic of reading historical and archaeological sources
Different human species
Top row R-L: Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus. Middle R-L: Male and female Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis. Bottom R-L: Homo neanderthalensis girl and man, Homo sapiens. By ישראל קרול [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Models of Australopithecus sp. from a park in Germany. By Frank Vincentz (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Reconstructed head of a Homo erectus female at the Smihtsonian Museum. By reconstruction by John Gurche; photographed by Tim Evanson [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Reconstruction of a Neanderthal family from St Michael’s Cave, Gibraltar. This file is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence.
Comparison of Homo sapiens (L) and Homo neanderthalensis (R) skulls. By hairymuseummatt (original photo), DrMikeBaxter (derivative work) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons