jaw with teeth 2.8 million years found in Ethiopia is the fossil genus Homo oldest found so far and as published in Science their discovery 400,000 years back the clock of our species.
This discovery announced Wednesday in you digital edition of the magazine, sheds light on the origin of the genus Homo to the human species belonging , scientists estimate Science
“The era of dating the lower jaw reduces the gap in development between the Australopithecus . – -the famous Lucy that dates back 3.2 million years– and the first species of type Homo erectus or as habilis “explain the paleontologists.
” This fossil is an excellent example of a transitional species in a key period of human evolution, “he added.
jaw was found in 2013 in a tracking area called Ledi-Geraru in the Afar region of Ethiopia by an international team of researchers led by Kaye Reed of the University of Brian Villmoare Arizona and the University of Nevada.
For decades, scientists look for fossils in Africa for clues to the origins of Homo line but with limited success because very few fossils discovered period makes going from three million to 2.5 million years.
“The fossils of Homo line more than two million years are very rare and having a clarification on the early stages of the evolution of our line is particularly exciting, “says Brian Villmoare, lead author of the article.
However, researchers say they are unable to say with this one jaw whether or not it is a new subspecies within the Homo type.
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