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Comparative skulls at Tautavel

Modern copies of ancient skulls in boxes in a lab in France.

Modern copies of ancient skulls from the laboratory in the lab at Tautavel, France. The skulls go back in evolutionary time from a modern human, so some of the ones further down the line include archaic Homo sapiens and Homo erectus among others.

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