According to a research published in the open access journal PLoS ONE, a 400k year old fragment of human lower jaw recovered from a Serbian cave is the oldest human ancestor found in this part of Europe. Top: artist’s reconstruction of human ancestors (SINC / José Antonio Peñas). Bottom: a human lower jaw found in a cave near Balanica, Serbia (Mirjana Roksandic) The fossil, labeled BH-1, was found to be at least 397,000 years old and possibly...
