Biological Anthropologists Question Claims for Human Ancestry

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 13:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Anthropologists from GW and NYU question claims that several prominent fossil discoveries made in the last decade are our human ancestors. With a more nuanced explanation of the fossils' place on the Tree of Life, the authors conclude that instead of being our ancestors, the fossils are more likely belong to extinct distant cousins.

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