"The more species of Homo there were, the higher the rate ofA cast of the skull of Homo Heidelbergensis, one of the hominin species analyzed in the latest study. ) A cast of the skull of Homo Erectus, one of the hominin species analyzed in the latest"The earliest fossil we find will not be the earliest members of a species," said van Holstein. She argues that an ability to use technology to generalize, and rapidly go beyond ecological niches that force other species to compete for habitat and resources, may be behind the exponential increase in the number of Homo species detected by the latest study. And competition with an extremely flexible generalist in almost every ecological niche may be what contributed to the extinction of all other Homo species.
