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Last Modified: 26 Mar 2008
By: Julian Rush

The teeth and jawbone of what could be the earliest man to have lived in western Europe are discovered by scientists in Spain.

The fossils - over 1m years old - were unearthed alongside tools and animal remains and are thought to be the most accurately dated evidence of the human occupation of Europe but dating such sites remains controversial.