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Discovery Of 2.8-Million-Year-Old Jaw Sheds Light On Early Humans
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2015-03-08 01:00
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"For decades, scientists have been searching for African fossils documenting the earliest phases of the Homo lineage, but specimens recovered from the critical time interval between 3 and 2.5 million years ago have been frustratingly few and often poorly preserved. However, a fossil lower jaw found in the Ledi-Geraru research area, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia, pushes back evidence for the human genus -- Homo -- to 2.8 million years ago."
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