New hominid shares traits with Homo species: Fossil find sheds light on the transition to Homo genus from earlier hominids
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 10:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species -- and its introduction into the fossil record might answer some key questions about what it means to be human.