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Ethiopian Fossils Reveal Species in Human Evolutionary Lineage
Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place as the earliest known member of the genus Homo to which our own species belongs.
A team of researchers from the Arizona State University of the United States found fossils in Ethiopia that could modify the way we understand human evolution and archaeology.They are 13 dental pieces located in the Afar region, a key deposit for paleontology.The novel thing is that these teeth do not match any of the species known so far, which opens the possibility that it is a human lineage that has not yet been identified.They discover coppe…
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