Excavations at Tanzania's famed Olduvai Gorge have uncovered the oldest known fossil hand bone resembling those of people today. The bone from a hominid's left pinkie finger dates to at least 1.84 million years ago and looks more like corresponding bones of modern humans than like finger ...
idedo Vitric Tuff, and therefore cannot anchor a minimum age for the Herto fossils. Shifting the age of the oldest knownHomo sapiensfossils in eastern Africa to before around 200 thousand years ago is consistent with independent evidence for greater antiquity of the modern human lineage10. Sim...
but with Denisovans, splitting from them about 700,000 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...
Positioned as it is in the fossil record, the find helps to fill in a chapter in human evolution that has long been relatively blank. Before about 3 million years ago, our hominid relatives bore a strong resemblance to apes. After about 2 million years ago, they look much more like moder...
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. ...
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.
The oldest known bones of our species, dating back around 300,000 years, have been discovered in a cave in Morocco. The fossils — which belong to five individuals, including a teenager and a younger child — push backthe origin ofHomo sapiensby 100,000 years, scientists say. The fossils...