A team of researchers on Wednesday revealed the finding of a hominid fossil 2.8 million years old, making it the oldest human fossil - that is, the oldest fossil of a member of mankind's genus, Homo - ever unearthed.Fox News Latino
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the first Australopithecus fossil ever found. In 1925, Australian anthropologist Raymond Dart first identified Australopithecus africanus as a human relative, a bold and controversial claim at the time.
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...
“It’s really neat work to be able to go to the volcanic complexes, and collect samples right from the source, and connect them chemically in a very precise way to what was found at the fossil site itself,” saysRick Potts, director of the Smithsonian’s Human ...
The oldest fossils of modern humans found yet date back to about 200,000 years ago. Denisovan relative? The researchers reconstructed a nearly complete genome of this fossil's mitochondria — the powerhouses of the cell, which possess their own DNA and get passed down from the mother. The ...
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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...
"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...
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...