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Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected

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Fossils found at the Sterkfontein Caves in South Africa reveal nearly four million years of hominin and environmental evolution. New ages range from 3.4-3.6 million years for Member 4 of the cave. The new dates show that Australopithecus existed almost a million years prior to the appearance of Paranthropus and Homo.

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BBC News

Fossils: Cave woman one million years older than thought

New research complicates our current understanding of where humans came from.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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The Guardian

Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought

Fossils from South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relatives

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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CTV News

Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected

Fossils of early human ancestors from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old -- making them a million years older than previously suspected and shaking up the way researchers understand human origins and evolution.

2 years ago·Canada

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CNN

Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected

Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected. The discovery is changing our understanding of Australopithecus, an ancient hominin.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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Early human fossils found in cave are a million years older than expected

By Ashley Strickland, CNNFossils of early human ancestors from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old — making them a million years older than previously suspected and shaking up the way researchers understand human origins and evolution.This new date makes the Sterkfontein Cave fossils older than the famed Lucy fossil (also known as Dinkinesh) from Ethiopia. Found in 1979, Lucy represented the species Australopithecus afa…

2 years ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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