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Image: Yohannes Haile-Selassie This 3.4-Million-Year-Old Foot Reveals Another Mysterious Early Human Species Once Walked in the Same Area as Our Ancestors
Around 3.4 million years ago, in today’s Afar region of Ethiopia, at least two distinct types of early human relatives shared the same landscape.A recent study published in Nature examines fossils from Woranso-Mille, a mid-Pliocene site already known for Australopithecus afarensis—the species of the famous “Lucy”—and a more recently identified species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. When A. deyiremeda was first described, scientists also had a par…
Recent research revealed a fascinating aspect of the existence of human ancestors. Two species of Humanitarian, Astralopethecus afarensis and Astralopethecus dieermeda, which date about 3.4 million years ago, lived in the same region of Ethiopia. The discovery reveals ancient notions about a linear path in the evolution of bipedalism, highlighting the diversity of forms of locomoism... The post Scientists discovered two human species that lived …
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