Analysis: Scientists in Ethiopia announce their discovery of bone fragments that may be the oldest fossil hominids found to date...NOAH ADAMS, LINDA WERTHEIMER
The revised Omo-Kibish stratigraphy is also incompatible with the 197 ± 4 kyr age reported for the Nakaa’kire Tuff3,7,9, which is found in Member I of the formation3,7,9and which must therefore be older than 233 ± 22 kyr. The age of 197 ± 4 kyr was infe...
The blend of features in the new fossil further challenges the old theory that hominids evolved each key trait only once in a line of descent. “It’s a great example of how the fossil record keeps showing how wrong our inferences are,” said Susan Antón at Rutgers University. Wood says...
Calachew Seeyoum came across a broken tooth. The graduate student knew at once that it was a fossil, and it was important. The thick enamel was a surefire sign that the premolar had come from one of our extinct hominid relatives. Squatting in the silty soil, Seeyoum found more teeth...
000 years ago. This is odd, since research currently suggests the Denisovans lived in eastern Asia, not in western Europe, where this fossil was uncovered. The only knownDenisovan fossilsso far are a finger bone and a molar found in Siberia. [Denisovan Gallery: Tracing the Genetics of Human...
Hominid Corridor Research Project update: new Pliocene fossil localities at Lake Manyara and putative oldest Early Stone Age occurrences at Laetoli (Upper Ndolanya Beds), northern Tanzania. J. Hum. Evol. 28, 117-120.Kaiser, T., Bromage, T.G., Schrenk, F., 1995. ...
Palaeontologists eventually categorised the find as a Homo erectus, or "upright human"—a hominid that according to sketchy and hugely debated fossil evidence lived from around 1.9 million years ago to about 150,000 years ago. Reporting in the science journalNature, a team led by Josephine Jo...
Palaeontologists eventually categorised the find as a Homo erectus, or "upright human"—a hominid that according to sketchy and hugely debated fossil evidence lived from around 1.9 million years ago to about 150,000 years ago. Reporting in the science journalNature, a team led by Josephine Jo...
After 13 years of meticulous excavation of the nearly complete skeleton of the Australopithecus fossil named Little Foot, South African and French scientists have now convincingly shown that it is probably around 3 million years old.
"Well-dated sites of this age are exceptionally rare in Africa, but we were fortunate that so many of the Jebel Irhoud flint artifacts had been heated in the past," geochronology expert Daniel Richter, who was the lead author of the fossil-dating study when he was at the Max Planck Inst...