A partial jaw found in the Afar region, in northeastern Ethiopia, filled an absence that intrigued paleoanthropologists for decades. Dated at approximately 2.6 million years, the MLP-3000 fossil was attributed to the genus Parantropus and appeared about 1,000 kilometers north of the most northerly record known previously. In addition to drastically expanding the distribution...
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A partial jaw found in the Afar region, in northeastern Ethiopia, filled an absence that intrigued paleoanthropologists for decades. Dated at approximately 2.6 million years, the MLP-3000 fossil was attributed to the genus Parantropus and appeared about 1,000 kilometers north of the most northerly record known previously. In addition to drastically expanding the distribution...