91.   If they were modern humans, they had traveled from southern Europe to the Arctic in an exceedingly brief period of time.

92.   It is widely accepted now that modern humans physically developed first in Africa.

93.   It is thought this higher-protein food may have played a role in the evolution of the larger brain of modern humans.

94.   Leakey said the species represented by the new skull could have been an ancestor of modern humans, or it could have been an evolutionary dead end.

95.   Many scientists concluded that Australopithecus afarensis was one of the direct ancestors of modern humans.

96.   Milford Wolpoff, a University of Michigan anthropologist who studies early human fossils, said fossils suggest an evolutionary link between Neanderthals and modern humans.

97.   Modern humans likely arose from small groups that journeyed from continent to continent, not in a single migration from Africa, anthropologists say.

98.   Morever, survival in the harsh environment there suggests a relatively high level of social development of the sort generally associated with modern humans, researchers said.

99.   Now the question is why these primitive people -- an evolutionary cousin of modern humans, although most scientists think they are not direct ancestors -- practiced cannibalism.

100.   Others say the Neanderthal was biologically absorbed by early modern humans and disappeared as a distinct and separate species.