Scientists Found Homo Erectus 200,000 Years Earlier than Expected
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ecotopical.comScientists found Homo erectus 200,000 years earlier than expected
New fossils from South Africa are reshaping the story of early human evolution. Researchers have described 18 hominin fossils from Drimolen Cave, including an adult Homo erectus skull fragment dated to about 2 million years ago, supporting evidence that the species appeared in southern Africa roughly 200,000 years earlier than long thought. The finds also reveal that Paranthropus robustus, which lived alongside Homo erectus, was gradually evolvi…
For decades, part of the fossils removed from Drimolen, South Africa, remained without a complete scientific description. Now researchers have analyzed 18 of these specimens and found among them a fragment of adult skull attributed to Homo erectus. Homo erectus in Drimolen was already present between approximately 2.04 and 1.95 million years ago, reinforcing a...
Homo erectus in Drimolen: 18 fossils in a site as big as a block, where another little man surpassed us by more than 10 to 1. What does it mean? The article Homo erectus, remains of two million years ago: story to be rewritten is taken from Future Next.
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