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Ever since the development of evolutionary theory in the early 19th century, biologists recognized that humans must be distantly related to all other species. Without transitional fossils, scientists presumed that humans' closest relatives were the great apes.
7 gru 2017 · After 20 years of slow, careful excavation, the world's most complete skeleton of an ancient human ancestor has just been unveiled. It belongs to the genus Australopithecus, and it's 3.67 million years old.
15 paź 2024 · When Lucy was discovered 50 years ago, she was the oldest, most complete early member of the human family that had ever been found, with 47 bones representing 40 percent of the skeleton.
28 cze 2022 · CNN — Fossils of early human ancestors from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old – making them a million years older than previously suspected and shaking up the way...
13 cze 2023 · Researchers have digitally reconstructed the leg muscles of an ancient human ancestor that lived 3.2 million years ago, revealing they could stand and walk upright like modern humans.
30 wrz 2009 · Older hominid fossils have been uncovered, including a skull from Chad at least six million years old and some more fragmentary, slightly younger remains from Kenya and nearby in the Middle Awash...
Lucy, a 3.2 million-year old fossil skeleton of a human ancestor, was discovered in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia. Courtesy of Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University. The fossil...
