New Kenyan fossils shed light on early human evolution
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 08:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Fossils discovered east of Africa's Lake Turkana confirm that there were two additional species of our genus—Homo—living alongside our direct human ancestral species, Homo erectus, almost two million years ago. The finds, announced in the journal Nature, include a face, a complete lower jaw, and part of a second lower jaw.