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Scientists want to fold Australopithecus into our own genus, rewriting the human family tree
The names scientists give to humanity’s ancient relatives are more than labels. They encode a story about who counts as close kin and who sits on a separate branch of the family tree. Now a researcher ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New Monash University research argues our Paranthropus (pictured) and Australopithecus ancestors who lived up to 5 million years ...
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3.3 million-year-old tools: Were Australopithecus the first toolmakers?
In 2015, stone tools at Lomekwi 3 in West Turkana, Kenya, were found dating to about 3.3 million years ago, making them the oldest known created stone tools. Their age predates the Homo genus, and the ...
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A boy's 2008 find in South Africa led to Australopithecus sediba, an ancient human relative about 2 million years old.
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