Homo bodoensis

Homo bodoensis is a proposed term for the hominin populations that occupied Africa around 500,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene Epoch. They are thought to have been the immediate ancestors of modern humans, Homo sapiens, with a cranial capacity approaching the low end of the modern human range.

The loincloth I have given this female specimen, I must admit, is entirely a concession to modern sensibilities. Given that modern clothing lice have emerged as a distinct lineage little more than 170,000 years ago according to genetic research, it’s likely that African hominins living before that date such as H. bodoensis would not have bothered with clothing at all.

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