Scientists Spar Over Claims of Earliest Human Ancestor
- 23 February 2001
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 291 (5508) , 1460-1461
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.291.5508.1460
Abstract
PARIS-- In two papers scheduled for publication in the 28 February issue of the Comptes Rendus de l9Académie des Sciences, researchers claim that a set of 6-million-year-old bones unearthed in Kenya last year represents our earliest known ancestor. Not only would the find predate other leading candidates by some 2 million years; the authors also believe that all australopithecines--hominids which include the famous skeleton Lucy, whose species is thought to be one of our direct ancestors--should be relegated to a side branch in favor of their specimen.Keywords
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