Derby and Derbyshire are known the world over for being the home of Rolls-Royce, being the cradle of industrialisation, boasting that Florence Nightingale lived here - and having fantastic scenery.

The jaw bone and skull fragment suggested a group of people lived in the Middle East 120,000 to 420,000 years ago with anatomical features more primitive than early modern humans and Neanderthals.

IT is more than sixty years (1877) since the appearance of the first general text-book on “The Morphology of the Skull” by Parker and Bettany, a work excellent in its day but now out of date ...