What is Homo rhodesiensis?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Homo rhodesiensis'' | fossil_range = [[Pleistocene]] | image = Rhodesian Man.jpg | image_width = 220px | image_caption = Skull found in 1921 | status= | status_system = | domain = [[Eukarya]] | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Primate]]s | familia = [[Hominidae]] | tribus = [[Hominini]] | genus = ''[[Homo (genus)|Homo]]'' | species = '''''H. rhodesiensis''''' | binomial = †''Homo rhodesiensis'' | binomial_authority = [[Arthur Smith Woodward|Woodward]], 1921 }} '''''Homo rhodesiensis''''' is a [[hominin]] species described from a single [[fossil]] [[skull]]. It was found in the colony of [[Northern Rhodesia]], (now [[Zambia]]) at a [[Mining|mine]] called Broken Hill (now [[Kabwe]]) in 1921. The skull lacks the lower jaw, but otherwise is almost complete. In addition to the [[cranium]], an upper jaw from another individual, a [[sacrum]] (bone of the [[pelvis]]), a [[tibia]], and two [[femur]] fragments were also found. Rhodesian Man is dated to be between 125,000 and 300,000 years old. [[Human brain#Structure|Cranial capacity]] of the Broken Hill skull has been estimated at 1,100&nbsp;cm³.<ref>Rightmire, G. Philip. [https://books.google.com/books?id=edFD6el38mAC&dq=Ndutu+hominid&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 The evolution of ''Homo erectus'': comparative anatomical studies of an extinct human species] Cambridge University Press, 1993. {{ISBN|0-521-44998-7}}, {{ISBN|978-0-521-44998-4}}.</ref> Bada & al (1974) published a direct date of 110 ka for this specimen.<ref>Bada, Jeffrey L. ''et al'' [http://www.pnas.org/content/71/3/914.abstract Concordance of collagen-based radiocarbon and aspartic-acid racemization ages] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320213312/http://www.pnas.org/content/71/3/914.abstract |date=2015-03-20 }} PNAS abstract URL.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ea.13.050185.001325 |title=Amino acid racemization dating of fossil bones |