The immediate ancestor of Homo sapiens sapiens is Cro-Magnon man. The name given to these human ancestors was Homo sapiens fossilis. They were excavated in 1868 from Cro-Magnon rocks of France by MacGregor. They might have evolved 34,000 years ago in the Holocene Epoch. They had a large skull, broad face, rounded forehead, narrow nose and a prominent chin. They lacked eyebrow ridges. The cranial cavity was about 1660 c.c. These were cave-dwelling and hunters. Cro-Magnon had a perfectly orthognathous face. They were omnivorous, used elephant tusks. They became extinct some 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.
Java man or Homo erectus erectus and its close relative H. erectus pekinensis probably gave rise to Neanderthal man.