A hominid skull fossil reveals the face of Lucy's possible ancestors ...
2019年8月28日 · The East African skull, which turned up at Ethiopia’s Woranso-Mille site, has been classified as Australopithecus anamensis. It is the oldest known species in a hominid genus that includes...
East Africa's Oldest Modern Human Fossil Is Way Older Than …
2022年1月12日 · For more than half a century the fossil has been known as one of the oldest existing Homo sapiens skulls anywhere in the world. (The partial skull and skeleton were considered the oldest until...
Lucy (Australopithecus) - Wikipedia
AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh (Amharic: ድንቅ ነሽ, lit. 'you are marvellous'), is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.
World's oldest Homo sapiens fossils found in Morocco
2017年6月7日 · Those fossils were found in East Africa, long the presumed cradle of human evolution. At Herto, in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley, researchers dated H. sapiens skulls to about 160,000 years ago; farther south at Omo Kibish, two skullcaps are dated to about 195,000 years ago, making them the oldest widely accepted members of our species, until now.
East African Homo sapiens bones are more ancient than once …
2022年1月12日 · bones in East Africa are at least 36,000 years older than once thought. Dark areas in this reconstruction of a Homo sapiens skull represent fossils found more than 50 years ago at Ethiopia’s...
Oldest Homo sapiens fossil claim rewrites our species' history
2017年6月7日 · East Africa is where most scientists place our species’ origins: two of the oldest known H. sapiens fossils — 196,000 and 160,000-year-old skulls 3,4 — come from Ethiopia, and DNA studies of ...
Lucy's Story | Institute of Human Origins - Arizona State University
Evidence now strongly suggests that the Hadar material, as well as fossils from elsewhere in East Africa from the same time period, belong to a single, sexually dimorphic species known as Australopithecus afarensis. At Hadar, the size difference is very clear, with larger males and smaller females being fairly easy to distinguish.
Rare 3.8-million-year-old skull recasts origins of iconic ... - Nature
2019年8月28日 · The 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull, discovered at a site called Woranso-Mille in Ethiopia, now suggests otherwise. A team of palaeoanthropologists led by Yohannes Haile-Selassie at the ...
Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in …
2020年4月1日 · The Broken Hill skull (Natural History Museum (NHM) registration number E686) (Fig. 1) was the first important human fossil found in Africa. It was recovered from deposits that were being...
A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary ... - Science
2013年10月18日 · In midfacial architecture, skull 5 exhibits morphological affinities with the broadly contemporaneous African specimens SK 847 (fig. S4) and OH 65 (21), as well as with early representatives of Homo in eastern Africa such as KNM-ER 1470 and KNM-ER 62000, dated to ~2.0 to 1.9 Ma (15).