Posted: 01 Apr 2014 01:13 PM PDT
It
took just one skull, but it allowed anthropologists to drastically
simplify our evolutionary family tree. The 1.8-million-year-old specimen
was unearthed in the Eurasian country Georgia, and pored over by an
international team of scientists led by Georgian paleoanthropologist
David Lordkipanidze for eight years. It’s a missing link, of sorts,
tying together as a single species other early, diverse fossils that
were previously identified as belonging to distinct species. With this
new skull, anthropologists think those fossils might, in fact, represent
a wide spectrum of traits from a single evolutionary line.Read more of the article here.
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