Flipboard Science Desk<p>1.4-million-year-old skull fragments linked to mystery human ancestor.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Gizmodo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Gizmodo</span></a></span> reports: "The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/L-sAAR" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/L-sAAR</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Human</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropology</span></a></p>