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Fossil find breakthrough hailed

9th August 2012


Skull of the long-faced human whose fossils
were found near Lake Turkana in Kenya

At least three species from the human family Homo may have lived together in Africa almost two million years ago, new research has suggested.

One of them, Homo erectus, is thought to be the most likely direct ancestor of people living today.

The others most probably came to an evolutionary dead end, experts believe.

Between 2007 and 2009, three new fossils were unearthed from a site near Lake Turkana in Kenya - known as the "cradle of mankind". They included a face, a near-complete lower jaw, and part of a second lower jaw.

Combined with a mysterious fossil known as "1470" found nearby four decades ago, they confirm the existence of a human species with a large brain case and long, flat face.

The fossils appear to be distinct both from Homo erectus and Homo habilis, another primitive species from the same era.

Before the new discoveries, experts had tentatively named the 1470 species Homo rudolfensis.

Dr Meave Leakey, co-leader of the Koobi Fora Research Project (KFRP) in Kenya, one of the scientists whose findings are published in the journal Nature, said: "For the past 40 years we have looked long and hard in the vast expanse of sediments around Lake Turkana for fossils that confirm the unique features of 1470's face and show us what its teeth and lower jaw would have looked like.

"At last we have some answers."

Co-author Professor Fred Spoor, from University College London, said: "Combined, the three new fossils give a much clearer picture of what 1470 looked like. As a result, it is now clear that two species of early Homo lived alongside Homo erectus. The new fossils will greatly help in unravelling how our branch of human evolution first emerged and flourished almost two million years ago."

Source; http://news.uk.msn.com/articles.aspx?cp ... =250857731

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What a load of beeswax, man invents a scale and fits history in to match, I think this will eventually be like smoking is healthy for you myself, when someone finds the proper way to date things if thats ever possible anyway the truth may out, but all the time there's free funding so the white coats can jaunt around the planet with a paint brush coming up with great concepts I guess we'll have to go with it eh.

Homo erections? thats top of the gay dvd charts int it? features those two scottish gay actors

Ben Doon and Phil McCrevice

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Probably left over from a 1960 Mau Mau beach party where the host got a new Machete and just had to try it out..

we are probably all a mixture of the different sub species after all they were living in the same areas at the same time so surely they interbred ?

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we cant be related to a bunch of low IQ knuckle-dragging carpet lickers can we?

then again....

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I'm sure if you took a scan of the skull of your average EDL supporter you would find similarities with Neanderthals !

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

are they from Holland then?

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yup all over Europe !

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector