Discovery of jaw by ASU team sheds light on early Homo

Discovery of jaw by ASU team sheds light on early Homo

03/13/2015 10:17 AM EDT

For decades, scientists have been searching for African fossils documenting the earliest phases of the Homo lineage, but had only been able to recover a few, poorly preserved specimens from the critical time interval between 3 million years ago roughly 2.3 million years ago. However, a fossil lower jaw found in the Ledi-Geraru research area, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia, falls within that critical period, at 2.8 million years old.

Full story at https://asunews.asu.edu/20150304-asu-human-fossil-discovery

Source
Arizona State University

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