Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins

Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic “ape-to-human” progression and paints human evolution as a crowded, branching tree with multiple species coexisting. Scientists dated the fossils using volcanic ash deposits and are now investigating what these ancient relatives ate and whether they comp…

Ethiopia fossil find shows human ancestors lived alongside one another

The remarkable discovery has shown that human evolution was a lot more complex than previously believed. It is a common misconception that humans evol...