Sunday 8 March 2015

Discovery of jaw by ASU team sheds light on early Homo

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Discovery of jaw by ASU team sheds light on early Homo
Tempe, AZ (SPX) Mar 06, 2015 - 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, according to a pair of reports published in the online version of the journal Science. The jaw predates the previously known fossils of the Homo lineage by approximately 400,000 years. It was discovered in 2013 by an internati ... more


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