Earliest Human Species Possibly Found in Ethiopia

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 13:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A human with a mix of primitive and more modern traits who lived 2.8 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia may be a newfound species and the earliest human ever discovered. The finding reveals humans arose 500,000 years earlier than thought.

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