FOSSIL bonesFOSSIL hominidsA 2.8-million-year-old jawbone from Ethiopia may represent the earliest fossil from the genus Homo yet discovered — pushing back the known origins of humankind by nearly 500,000 years. The fossil ( pictured ), analysed by Brian Villmoare at the University of Nevada...
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The blend of features in the new fossil further challenges the old theory that hominids evolved each key traitonly 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 ...
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"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...
The female skeleton, nicknamed Ardi, is 4.4 million years old, 1.2 million years older than the skeleton of Lucy, or Australopithecus afarensis, the most famous and, until now, the earliest hominid skeleton ever found. Hominids are all fossil species closer to modern humans than to chimps and...
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. Journal of Human Evolution 28, 117e120.Kaiser, T., Bromage, T. G., & Schrenk, ...
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...
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...