Fossil find shows other human cousins
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 23:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Fossils show two additional species of our genus Homo lived alongside our direct ancestral species in Africa almost 2 million years ago, scientists say.
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