Fossils from South African cave are 3.4 to 3.6m years old and walked the Earth at same time as east African relatives
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in
But “chronologically that didn’t fit,” said French scientist Laurent Bruxelles, one of the authors of a study published Monday in the PNAS science journal.About 2.2m years ago the Homo habilis – the earliest species of the Homo genus that includes Homo sapiens – was already roaming the region.Also casting doubt on Mrs Ples’s age was recent research showing that the almost-complete skeleton of an Australopithecus known as “Little Foot” was 3.67m years old.
Because the fossils are too old and fragile to test, scientists analyse the sediment near where they were found.
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